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The client would not have gone through the report/brief before attending your well rehearsed presentation.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about customers

The better your presentation, least the impact.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

When the telephone operator leaves the board on night mode all the calls would land only on your desk.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about night

When you are attending a client call on a colleagues desk, and need to jot down urgently, none of the pens on his desk would write if not you wouldn't find a piece of paper within your reach.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about customers, need, contentment

You'd find the important Phone number/e-mail ID you had been looking for, only after you had got in touch with that person by some other means.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about numbers, contentment, people

When you are out of office, the most important of phone calls would be attended by the least concerned of your colleagues who wouldn't even care to ask who it was.. or wouldn't remember.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

Only on the rarest of the days you come late, you'd bump into your boss smoking at the entrance.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about smokers, heads, day, contentment

The floppy which worked perfectly alright few minutes ago on your machine will not open in your boss's or client's machine.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about customers, heads

The coffee machine will be empty, when you need coffee most.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about need, contentment

After a really hard day of work, when starting your car at 11:00 pm in the night to leave office, you'll realize that you've run out of gas.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about night, work, day, contentment

The stapler will be out of pins when needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

The frequency of mailing performed by a person varies in inverse proportion to the amount of work at hand.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about man, people, work

The authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of functions in his pocket calculator.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about authority, numbers, people

When there are two possible forms to fill out on any given matter, the wrong form is always filled out at first.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about bad

The wrong form is not discovered until it has been signed by all parties concerned, sealed, and delivered.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about bad

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

The first 90% of a project requires 90% of the allotted time. The remaining 10% takes another 90% of the allotted time.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

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If you'll watch your team during a crucial game they will lose.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about games, contentment

The rate of instrument failure/breakdown is inversely proportional to the ease of finding a repairman.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about failure