Quotes from Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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 rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

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.

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

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

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

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

The optimum committee has no members.

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

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

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

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

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

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