If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Action Copy Share Image
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine Books Copy Share Image
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine Estimated Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine Auditors Copy Share Image
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever… — Norman Ralph Augustine Administration Copy Share Image
Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Business Copy Share Image
The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Authenticity Copy Share Image
Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself… — Norman Ralph Augustine Action Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is… — Norman Ralph Augustine Money Copy Share Image
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine Art Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. — Norman Ralph Augustine Government Copy Share Image
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. — Norman Ralph Augustine Arithmetic Copy Share Image
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine Advice Copy Share Image
