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• Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
  The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much....
• Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
  The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much. -- Augustine...
• XXXVI: 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....
• By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
  -- Augustine's Law Number LI -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XV -- 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...
• If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to. -- Augustine's Law Number IV -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...