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Norman Ralph Augustine [1935-0] American

Rank: 101
Author, Businessman

Norman Ralph Augustine is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee.

Chance, Computers, Government, Legal, Motivational, Pet, Sports

Quote	Tags	Rank
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.	Motivational	101
The optimum committee has no members.		102
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.	Legal	103
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.		104
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.		105
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.		106
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'	Computers	107
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.		108
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.		109
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.	Government	110
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.		111
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.		112
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.		113
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'		114
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.	Chance	115
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.		116
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.		117
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.		118
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.	Sports	119
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.		120
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.		121
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.		122
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.		123
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.		124
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.	Pet	125
The more one produces, the less one gets.		126
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.		201
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.		202
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.		203
It costs a lot to build bad products.		204
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.		205
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.		206
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.		207
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.		208
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.		209
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.		210
Hardware works best when it matters the least.		211
A billion saved is a billion earned.		212
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.		213
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.		214

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