Charlie Munger Quotes

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

We can get rid of red tape.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

I can't speak for the OPC. I'm all balled up on all these initials.

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

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

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.