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The more one produces, the less one gets.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.
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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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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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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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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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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