Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes

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• One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
• If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
• The more one produces, the less one gets.
• By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
• One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for…
• For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
• Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
• 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.
• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
• All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
• 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…
• It costs a lot to build bad products
• Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
• 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…
• 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.
• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
• A billion saved is a billion earned.
• Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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