Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

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

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

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

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

(1925 – 2010) American humorist & writer
Government Situations

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

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

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

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

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

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