Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Augustine
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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
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.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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.
If today were 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.
In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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 last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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.
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.
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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