Quotes By Norman Ralph Augustine

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.

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.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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

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

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

The more one produces, the less one gets.

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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 each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.

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

It costs a lot to build bad products.

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

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

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

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

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

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

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

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.