Laurence J. Peter

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise."

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."

"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."