Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 44)

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When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The scratch on the record is through the song you like most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Music

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Evil and stupidity are randomly distributed.

Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

People become progressively less competent for jobs they once were well equipped to handle.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Your own car uses more gas and oil than anyone else's.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

1. All the IVs are at the other end of the hall.

2. There are two kinds of adhesive tape: the one that won't stay on and the one that won't come off.

Health Murphy’s Laws

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Characteristics Conflict Murphy’s Laws

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

Murphy’s Laws

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

Murphy’s Laws

More dirt comes out of a hole than you can get back into it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

It works better if you plug it in.

Murphy’s Laws

There are those who don't even like to be rubbed the right way.

Murphy’s Laws People

The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

Murphy’s Laws Problems