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.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

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.

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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