A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
Norman Ralph Augustine


Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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

It costs a lot to build bad products.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine