“A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee” is a jocular saying that has been attributed to Arnold H. Glasgow, an American psychiatrist, since at least 1998. The saying means that hiring a consultant should be cost effective, but often is not.
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Work and Other Occupational Hazards
By Bruce Lansky
New York, NY: Meadowbrook Press: Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1998
Pg. 38:
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. — Arnold H. Glasgow
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TOM
8/6/98
(...)
“A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.”——ARNOLD H. GLASGOW
4 January 1999, The Facts (Clute, TX), pg. 6B, col. 3:
“A consultant is some one who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
(Ragland Chrysler Center—ed.)
23 May 2000, Aiken (SC) Standard, “Cryptoquote,” pg. 5C, col. 4:
Yesterday’s Cryptoquote: A CONSULTANT IS SOMEONE WHO SAVE HIS CLIENT ALMOST ENOUGH TO PAY HIS FEE.—ARNOLD H. GLASGOW
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And I Quote (Revised Edition):
The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker
By Ashton Applewhite, William R. Evans III and Andrew Frothingham
New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press)
2003
Pg. 233:
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. — Arnold Glasgow
Commercial Property Herald
June 23, 2012
How Does a Consultant Differ from an Attorney?
Every day I get some quote of the day. These quotes are often promoted as funny, intelligent or whatever. Today I received a quote that was tagged as a, funny quote from Arnold H. Glasgow
“A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.”
The funny thing is that I don’t think of the quote as funny.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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