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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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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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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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