Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes - Page 3

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• Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Average, Law, Numbers

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• Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

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  Teamwork, Opera, Venture

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• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Literature

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• A billion saved is a billion earned.

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  Billions, Saved

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• Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

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  Literature, Projects

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

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  Years, Three, Cost

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• The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

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  Rewards, Process, Penalties

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• Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

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  Years, Law, Numbers

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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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• By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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  People, Track, Asking

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• Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Law, Numbers

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• 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.

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  Twenties, Done, Literature

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