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

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

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

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.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.