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A billion saved is a billion earned.
It costs a lot to build bad products
It costs a lot to build bad products.
The optimum committee has no members.
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
The more one produces, the less one gets.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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.
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
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.
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
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.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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.
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.
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.