If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.Laurence J. Peter
“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
— 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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