There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.Laurence J. Peter
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
— LAURENCE J. PETER
Educator and writer · 1919 – 1990
Laurence J. Peter was a Canadian educator who formulated the 'Peter Principle' - the idea that employees in a hierarchy rise to their level of incompetence - in the bestselling satirical book 'The Peter Principle' (1969), written with Raymond Hull.
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