Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes
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Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
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Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
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By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
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The optimum committee has no members.
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If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
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Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
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Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
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Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.
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We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
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Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.
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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
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People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
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