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• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Augustine's Law Number XLIX -- 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...
• One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XLV -- 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...
• Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold -- your problems into their gold.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXXII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXVI -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• The more one produces, the less one gets. -- Augustine's Law Number XLI -- Norman R.
  Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• Most projects start out slowly -- and then sort of taper off.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XL -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
• The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine