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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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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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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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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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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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
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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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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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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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
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Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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