Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 51)

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You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Conflict Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

A bird in the hand is dead.

Animals Death Murphy’s Laws

The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

Military Murphy’s Laws

There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one.

Murphy’s Laws

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.

Murphy’s Laws

Things go right so they can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

Murphy’s Laws People Science/Weather

You can always hit what you don't aim at.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Never say ‘yes’ to any invitation three months away that you would be dreading if it were tomorrow.

Murphy’s Laws

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

America Money Murphy’s Laws Places

The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach.

Murphy’s Laws

No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Trial balances don't.
2. Working capital doesn't.
3. Liquidity tends to run out.
4. Return on investments won't.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.

Murphy’s Laws

You cannot force Murphy's Law to happen and you can't use it in reverse.

Murphy’s Laws

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Murphy’s Laws

If you're coasting, you're going downhill.

Murphy’s Laws