The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

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

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

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.