Raymond Hull

“Anything that works is obsolete.”

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”

“In a hierarchy, the cream rises until it sours.”

“Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.”

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them.”

“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”

“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.”

“He who hesitates is probably right.”

“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.”

“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance to become incompetent.”