Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 34)

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Odd objects attract fire… never lurk behind one.

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

What some people lack in intelligence, they more than make up for stupidity.

If things were left to chance, they'd be better.

Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Don't ever stand up to be counted or someone will take your seat.

The other line moves faster.

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.