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Norman Ralph Augustine
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About the author
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 Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Money
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Will
#Talent
#Motivation
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Problems
#Existence
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Computer
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#People
#Lawyers
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,
American
Author
#People
#May
#Money
#Possibility
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Hardware
#Rank
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Law
#Software
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
The optimum committee has no members.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Committee
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,
American
Author
#Order
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 Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Successful
#Policy
#states
#United
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Infinite
#Testing
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,
American
Author
#Time
#People
#Work
#Questions
#Answers
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Earth
#Water
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Business
#Artist
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Mind
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,
American
Author
#Will
#Books
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Time
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Time
#Will
#Government
#states
#United
#Workers
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Projects
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Business
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Fear
#Fools
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Hardware
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Chance
#Management
#Disaster
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#Advice
#Buying
#Selling
#Experts
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,
American
Author
#Earth
#Managers
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,
American
Author
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
It costs a lot to build bad products.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author
#People
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine,
American
Author