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.