Richard Branson Quotes

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

Instead of fighting terrorism, we were fighting bureaucratic inertia, an implacable enemy.

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

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

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.

When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

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.

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

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

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.

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

For Christ’s sake, quit being bureaucrats.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

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

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.