“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” — Laurence J. Peter
(Very clever! I had to play the percentages on the author. J. Peter was the best bet, but one couldn’t rule out P. Jeter. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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I surmised the attribution was Laurence J. Peter, author of the 1968 bestseller, “The Peter Principle.” (A quick read, it boils down to his maxim, “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”) It was pretty provocative at the time, and still helps to explain the inertia in big corporate hierarchies. Today, the provocative concept is “disruption.”