Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costl….

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems..

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all th….

Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide th….

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 authent….

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….

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 a….

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds..

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten..

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread..

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

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results ha….

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly..

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base..

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated..

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was..

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..

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..

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters..