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.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

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

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.'

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.