Top Ten Things You'll Never Hear from your Consultant.

1. - You're right; we're billing way too much for this.

2. - Bet you I can go a week without saying "synergy" or "value-added".

3. - How about paying us based on the success of the project?

4. - This whole strategy is based on a Harvard business case I read.

5. - Actually, the only difference is that we charge more than they do.

6. - I don't know enough to speak intelligently about that.

7. - Implementation? I only care about writing long reports.

8. - I can't take the credit. It was Ed in your marketing department.

9. - The problem is, you have too much work for too few people.

10. - Everything looks okay to me. You really don't need me.