Inefficiency Quotes

“Advertising is a multi-billion dollar sledgehammer driving a 49 cent thumbtack.”

“A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”

“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.”

“War is a bloody, inefficient business.”

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

“It is a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results.”

“Segregation is not humiliating. It's something else. It's a waste of time.”

“The purpose of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy.”

“The purpose of a committee is to delay a decision.”

“That's a typical shabby, shoddy, inefficient, amateurish way of going about things.”

“Officials make work for each other.”

“The smaller the function, the greater the management.”

“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”