Peter Principle Quotes

#1. Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

Michael R. Burch

#2. I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Jane Wagner

#3. Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.

Steven B. Sample

#4. The computer may be incompetent in itself
that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. Lately ... the Peter Principle has given way to the "Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Scott Adams

#6. To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#7. Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Peter Rachleff

#8. Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Peter Drucker

#9. (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Peter Drucker

#10. So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Peter L. Berger

#11. Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#12. ("It seemed to be the principle employment of both armies to look at each other with spyglasses," wrote the eminent Loyalist Peter Oliver, former chief justice of the province.)

David McCullough

#13. It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.

Peter Watts

#14. If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Ivar Giaever

#15. If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Mary Lou Retton

#16. But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.

Jenny Han

#17. When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.

Tacitus

#18. A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.

Peter Kreeft

#19. Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration ... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

Peter Drucker

#20. Another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.

Peter Kreeft

#21. This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

Peter Kreeft

#23. He could feel her breath on his chest. She looked into his eyes.

Emily Whitaker

#24. Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.

Peter J. Carroll

#25. Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

Peter Kreeft

#26. I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.

Tegan Quin

#27. My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

Lindsay Duncan

#28. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor