E. F. Schumacher Quotes

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

We can get rid of red tape.

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

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

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

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

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

I'm surprised that a government organization could do it that quickly.

Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

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

All organizations start with a structure that looks like a dynamic solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They attract people who play around with crazy ideas.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

Every organization can move at a different speed.