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.
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.
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.
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
