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• 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....
• If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
  -- Augustine's Law Number II -- 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Augustine's Law Number XLIX -- 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...