Oscar Munoz Quotes

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

We have been negotiating a lot of different transactions to save money on contracts that were terrible, including airplane contracts that were out of control and late and terrible. Just absolutely catastrophic in terms of what was happening, and we've done some really good work. We're very proud of that.