List of Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes

Soloist Are Inspiring In Opera And Perhaps Even In Small Entreprenurial Ventures, But There Is No Place For Them In Large Corporations.

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.

The Process Of Competitively Selecting Contractors To Perform Work Is Based On A System Of Rewards And Penalties, All Distributed Randomly.

The Most Unsuccessful Three Years In The Education Of Cost Estimators Appears To Be Fifth-grade Arithmetic.

Most Projects Start Out Slowly - And Then Sort Of Taper Off.

A Billion Saved Is A Billion Earned.

There Are No Lazy Veteran Lion Hunters.

By The Time The People Asking The Questions Are Ready For The Answers, The People Doing The Work Have Lost Track Of The Questions.

Simple Systems Are Not Feasible Because They Require Infinite Testing.

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.

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.

Law Number Xiv: After The Year 2015, There Will Be No Airplane Crashes. There Will Be No Takeoffs Either, Because Electronics Will Occupy 100 Percent Of Every Airplane's Weight.