Quotes about Inefficiency

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But