Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

The optimum committee has no members.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'