Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

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

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Speech

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Government

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

Government organization

Oxymorons