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
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Ends Copy Share Image
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will… — Norman Ralph Augustine Airplane Copy Share Image
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could… — Norman Ralph Augustine Done Copy Share Image
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 May 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 Difficult 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
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine Computers Copy Share Image
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of… — Norman Ralph Augustine Answers Copy Share Image
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' — Norman Ralph Augustine Consultants Copy Share Image
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee. — Norman Ralph Augustine Law Copy Share Image
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to. — Norman Ralph Augustine Advertising Copy Share Image
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Action Copy Share Image
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine More time Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.… — Norman Ralph Augustine Bottom 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 Has beens Copy Share Image
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. — Norman Ralph Augustine Dog 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
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. — Norman Ralph Augustine Expected 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
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 Assured Copy Share Image
Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is… — Norman Ralph Augustine Avoided Copy Share Image
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations. — Norman Ralph Augustine Corporations Copy Share Image
