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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
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Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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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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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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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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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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 XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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