Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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 degradation accomplished.

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.

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

A billion saved is a billion earned.

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.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

The optimum committee has no members.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

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.

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.

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.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

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

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

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

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

The more one produces, the less one gets.

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.

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

For every scientific or engineering action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.