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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
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Norman R. Augustine
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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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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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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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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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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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