Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
Author
Businessperson
Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
Means
Turning
Problem
Excellent
Mean
Gold
Number
Problems
Consultants
Numbers
Hiring
Study
Studies
Law
Conduct
More quotes by 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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
Norman Ralph Augustine
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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
It costs a lot to build bad products
Norman Ralph Augustine
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman Ralph Augustine
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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 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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman Ralph Augustine
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
Norman Ralph Augustine
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Norman Ralph Augustine
