Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Incompetency fed on itself.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

We’re not very good at cutting things. We’re not even good at reducing things.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

There's bad and then there's EDDY CURRY BAD.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

I'm useless around the house.

I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

Most people can do nothing at all well

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Doing nothing, badly.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

I'm basically a schlub.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.