Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 6

• I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire more effectively, they would. What I'm suggesting, though, is that human resources departments in most companies have become so detached - have become such a bureaucracy - that they have become clueless. They don't realize that the processes they have put in place have very little to do with recruiting, retaining and bringing on talent.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Clueless, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

  William Kristol

  Credit, Taxes, Huge

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

  Clay Shirky

  Law, Burden, Easier

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• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ideas, Paper, Cleaning

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• I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Russia, Clerks, Thousand

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• Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Doe, Return, Election

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• Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

  Fred Upton

  Mirrors, Yesterday, Allies

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• One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Mold, Welfare

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962”

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• And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

  Chris Terrio

  Thinking, Organization, Sometimes

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. Ocotber 15, 2012.

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• The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Difficulty, Candidates

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• Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Land, Salary, Pay

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• Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Life, Inflation, Solutions

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• In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Bulls, Bucks, Seven

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• On both sides of the Atlantic, our citizens are confronted by yet another danger - one firmly within our control. This danger is invisible to some but familiar to the Poles: the steady creep of government bureaucracy that drains the vitality and wealth of the people. The West became great not because of paperwork and regulations but because people were allowed to chase their dreams and pursue their destinies.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Destiny, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.

  Peter Buffett

  Technology, Men, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Burning, Investing, Progressive

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• Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

  Gary Hamel

  Roles, Hierarchy, Process

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• It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Pigs, Evil, Continuing

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• In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.

  Joseph Brodsky

  School, Russia, Years

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.

  George Osborne

  Hard Work, Order, Up Early

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

  Joan Robinson

  Fall, Years, Two

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.27, Academic Press

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• Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

  Joan Claybrook

  Government, Too Much, Problem

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• The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Term, Stills, Corporate

  Source: progressive.org

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