If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: ideas committees bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Charles Kettering Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: politics thinking taxation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One fails forward toward success. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: action failure belief impossibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: expectations achievement excellence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: politics thinking taxation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One fails forward toward success. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: action failure belief impossibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: expectations achievement excellence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “bureaucracy” Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines, . . . but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: democracy bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. —Georges Clemenceau More about this quote Tags: work passion bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. —Charles Peters More about this quote Tags: bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: escape responsibility decisions bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: change bureaucracy status quo inertia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines, . . . but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: democracy bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. —Georges Clemenceau More about this quote Tags: work passion bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. —Charles Peters More about this quote Tags: bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: escape responsibility decisions bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: change bureaucracy status quo inertia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email