p. 44 http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bPGIL-_-8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22On+second+thought,+maybe+the+atheist%22: Sometimes misattributed to Francis Thompson, whose quote "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident" Peter was commenting on. <br class="br">Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
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“Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.”
Источник: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 63
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Источник: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Источник: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”
Источник: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
p. 333 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations <br class="br">Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Laurence J. Peter книга The Peter Principle
Источник: The Peter Principle
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Источник: Peter's People and Their Marvelous Ideas
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Источник: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 25: Statement of the Peter Principle
“Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.”
Источник: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) " The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing? http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf"
Entry for September 24; as quoted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, ISBN 0880297689, p. 78
Peter's Almanac (1982)
Источник: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 10: Introduction
Источник: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 418
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
Источник: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125
Источник: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 38: This phenomenon is called by Peter "percussive sublimation", or "being kicked upstairs".