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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 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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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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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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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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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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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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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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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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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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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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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People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Norman Ralph Augustine
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Norman Ralph Augustine
A billion saved is a billion earned.
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If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Ralph Augustine
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
