Centralized Decision-Making Quotes

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.

The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

The first thing I would do is create one office that controlled all of pro tennis so you had one central voice that spoke for tennis. Central governance is something that's really held the sport back and will continue to do so.

Centralized health dictatorship.

In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.