It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

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.