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 Augustine
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Augustine
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Augustine
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Augustine
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman 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 Augustine
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Augustine
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Norman Augustine
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 Augustine
One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
Norman Augustine
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman Augustine
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman Augustine
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
Norman Augustine
The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Norman Augustine
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Norman 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 Augustine
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
Norman Augustine
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Norman Augustine
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman Augustine
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