Scott Adams Quotes

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

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

I find the business world hard.

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

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

We may well doubt whether our organization is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices and officers have not been multiplied unnecessarily and sometimes injuriously to the service they were meant to promote.

The fish rots from the head.

... an impossible organization to administer ... just an amorphous lump.

When the finance or marketing people run a company, innovation stops.

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.

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

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.