Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

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.

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.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

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

It costs a lot to build bad products

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.