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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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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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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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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 costs a lot to build bad products
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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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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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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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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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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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 IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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