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• The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.
  If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, it would probably be a good idea....
• A billion saved is a billion earned. -- Augustine's Law Number XLVI -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• It costs a lot to build bad products. -- Augustine's Law Number XII -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXVIII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• The optimum committee has no members. -- Augustine's Law Number XXXI -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. -- Augustine's Law Number III -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Augustine's Law Number XLIX -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• I: 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. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was....