Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

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

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

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Definitions Government

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

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

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

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

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

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