Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.

Government

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

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

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

A giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government

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

Murphy’s Laws Speech

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Government

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

Money Murphy’s Laws