"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."
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"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."
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"Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold."
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"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."
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"There are no lazy veteran lion hunters."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
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"Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations."
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"If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to."
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"A billion saved is a billion earned."
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"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."
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"The optimum committee has no members."
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"Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea."
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"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
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"Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems."
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"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
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"A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better."
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"Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day."
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"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67."
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"We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'"
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"It costs a lot to build bad products"
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