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

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

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

It’s easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

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

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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.

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

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one’s conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ‘The computer is down.’

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

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

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

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

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

The optimum committee has no members.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

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.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

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

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

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.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.