Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane’s weight.

It’s easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee’s and one-tenth as long as a human’s, but four times as long as the official’s who created it.

Most projects start out slowly – and then sort of taper 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.

If you can afford to advertise, you don’t need to.

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.’

It costs a lot to build bad products.

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.

All too many consultants, when asked, ‘What is 2 and 2?’ respond, ‘What do you have in mind?’