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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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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 more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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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's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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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 stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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