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• Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavou
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress - in direct proportion to the importance of his original contribution....
• Jones's First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavo
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution....
• Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavo
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution....
• Thiessen's Law of Gastronomy: The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the roll.
• Parkinson's First Law Work expands to fill the time available for its completio
  he thing to be done swells in perceived importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent in its completion....
• The importance of the man and his job, in that relative order, rises in direct proportion to the distance separating his audience from his home office.
• First impressions are of major importance in business matters. -- J. Pierpont Finch