Masayoshi Son Quotes

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

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.

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

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Administrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being

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

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

Superfluous bureaucracies and the system of file-keeping and paper-shuffling that is enforced by them … are totally alien to Islam

The Civil Service rewards those who do no more than sit at their desks and say no.

We have an illness in France which bids fair to play havoc with us; this illness is called bureaumania [Often translated as bureaucracy.]

A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.

To safeguard the people's money what we call red tape is tied around all government activity until the really efficient honest public servant has a somewhat difficult time, but we are still laboring under the theory that the majority of the world is dishonest.

Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative work cannot be capitalised on.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.