Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
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.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
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.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
A billion saved is a billion earned.
It costs a lot to build bad products.
The more one produces, the less one gets.
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.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
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.
