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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
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 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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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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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 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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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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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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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