Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

The optimum committee has no members.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.