The Secrets of Consulting Quotes

“Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Repeatedly curing a system that can cure itself will eventually create a system that can't.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“By making the time tradeoff explicit and by indicating a willingness to contribute time now, I make it clear that it is a problem of limited time, not a problem of limited respect for the other person.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“The name of a thing is not the thing.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Influence or affluence; take your choice.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Words are easy to change, but don't accomplish much.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Blaming someone else will only put the solution further out of reach.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

“the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully