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" It costs a lot to build bad products. "
Norman Ralph Augustine
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" If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. "
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" If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. "
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" The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten. "
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