“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.
Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm … gets eaten.
Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year — in either direction.
Most projects start out slowly — and then sort of taper off.”
—Norman Ralph Augustine.
