Explore 'Inefficiency'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Working in lock-step simply isn’t a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

Linus Torvalds

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Ludwig von Mises

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Mignon McLaughlin

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

George Clooney

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Will Rogers

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Will Rogers

the rule of Nobody … is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Hannah Arendt

Government doesn’t work. That’s the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

Harry Browne

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

Harry Vardon

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.

George S. Patton

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

James Cook

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

James Q. Wilson

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter

The government shouldn’t run anything, because it cannot run anything.

Lawrence Kudlow

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

John Wooden

Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we’re making the haystack bigger.

Jesselyn Radack

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Sarah Dunant

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

Jill Konrath

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Joe Haldeman

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

Kathy Sierra

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn’t working.

M.D.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

Mark Sheppard

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