If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

—Charles Kettering

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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

—Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

—Charles Kettering

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One fails forward toward success.

—Charles Kettering

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

—Charles Kettering

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

—Charles Kettering

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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.

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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

—Georges Clemenceau

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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

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

—Brooks Atkinson

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

—Laurence J. Peter

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