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

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

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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 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?'