Richard Thaler Quotes

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.

Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Government and business are simple. It's only people that make them complicated.

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.

Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.

Bureaucracies cling to their office space, their secretaries [assistants], their official cars, and their every allotted dollar and personnel position with a tenacity that drowning men might well envy.

The chances of catastrophe grow as organizations grow in number and size, and as internal communications become more time consuming and less intelligible.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

We don't have a health care system. We have a health care maze.

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

What drives me crazy is when you have a supervisor in government, and they report into 12 other supervisors. That's unacceptable.

Maybe because I've worked in the BBC for so long I am completely allergic to meetings.