Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 4)

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Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team, he fades. Whenever your team trades away a useless no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

Mothers Murphy’s Laws People

There are 32 points to the compass, meaning that there are 32 directions in which a spoon can squirt grapefruit; yet, the juice almost invariably flies straight into the human eye.

Murphy’s Laws

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People Stupidity Wisdom

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Murphy’s Laws

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

The sumptuousnss of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion to its profitability that year.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times… definitely will.

Murphy’s Laws

Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases.

Money Murphy’s Laws

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.

Murphy’s Laws

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

Murphy’s Laws Things

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

Health Murphy’s Laws Time

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Corollary: Once a misfit leaves, another will be recruited.

Murphy’s Laws People

People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.

Murphy’s Laws People

Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.

Murphy’s Laws