Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes

• People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Luchar, Ganar, Gente

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• La motivación casi siempre vencerá al mero talento.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiración, Vida, Éxito

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• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Two, Water, Auditors

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• The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Talking, Law, Numbers

  "Augustine's Laws". Book by Norman Ralph Augustine, 1983.

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• Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

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  Inspirational, Obfuscation

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• Ley número XVI: En el año 2054, todo el presupuesto de defensa comprará un solo avión. Este avión tendrá que ser compartido por la Fuerza Aérea y la Marina 3-1/2 días cada uno por semana, excepto en los años bisiestos, cuando se pondrá a disposición de los Marines para el día extra.

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  Marine, Air, Years

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• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

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  Advice, Experts, Would Be

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• Una de las expresiones más temidas en los tiempos modernos es "el ordenador no funciona".

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Funny, Humor, Expression

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• 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

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

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• One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Should Have, Literature, Unexpected

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• Ley número IX: Las siglas y abreviaturas deben utilizarse al máximo para hacer profundas las ideas triviales... Q.E.D.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Law, Ideas

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• A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

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  Dog, Pet, Hungry

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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.

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  Mean, Numbers, Law

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• Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

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  Numbers, Law, Two

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• El software es como la entropía. Es difícil de comprender, no pesa nada y obedece a la segunda ley de la termodinámica, es decir, siempre aumenta.

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  Science, Law, Literature

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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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  Mind, Euthanasia, Consultants

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• It costs a lot to build bad products

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  Inspiration, Cost, Products

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• Es muy costoso conseguir una alta falta de fiabilidad. No es raro que el coste de un artículo se multiplique por diez por cada factor de diez de degradación conseguido.

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  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

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• 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.

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  Average, Law, Numbers

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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.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Jobs, Successful, Years

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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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  Years, Law, Numbers

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• Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Fool, Incumbents

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• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

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  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

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  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• The optimum committee has no members.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiration, Members, Committees

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