Keyword: Bureaucracy

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

Government Murphy’s Laws

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

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Government Time

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Murphy’s Laws

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist
Occupations People Work

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

(1925 – 2010) American humorist & writer
Government Situations

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

Government

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)
Government Life

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Murphy’s Laws

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

Communism is like one big phone company.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist
Government

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)
People