Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
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.
It costs a lot to build bad products.
A billion saved is a billion earned.
The more one produces, the less one gets.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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.
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.
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
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 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.
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
The optimum committee has no members.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
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.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
