Occupation: Businessman Birth: July 27, 1935
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the tw….
Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical ….
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction..
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing n….
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried..
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction..
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions..
The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend ….
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation..
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'.
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….
Hardware works best when it matters the least..
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do..
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 degr….
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank..
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent..
It costs a lot to build bad products.
The optimum committee has no members..
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold..
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee..
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 a….