Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes - Page 2

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• If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

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  Needs, Literature, Advertising

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• Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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  Doe, Literature, Increase

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• Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

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  Men, Law, Numbers

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• We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

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  Stars, Believe, Hockey

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• One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

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  Literature, Problem, Existence

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• Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

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  Science, Math, Citizens

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• Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

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  Tasks, Literature, More Time

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• Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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  Literature, Matter, Hardware

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• People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

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  People, Trying, Literature

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• 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.

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  Order, Data, Giving

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• 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.

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  Book, Literature, Products

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• A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

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  Prayer, Men, Marketing

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• 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.

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  Ears, Literature, Way

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• It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

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  Needs, Literature, Easy

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• Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

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  Simple, Infinite, Testing

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• There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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  Effort, Lazy, Hunters

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• If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

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  Yesterday, Half, Today

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• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

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  Inspiration, Bird, Worms

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• The more one produces, the less one gets.

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  Produce

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• For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

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  Engineering, Opposites, Action

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• Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

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  Doe, Intimidation, Intimidating

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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.

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  Average, 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.

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  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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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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• 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.

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  Successful, Two, America

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