Inefficient Management Quotes

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.

A most powerful objection always arises to propositions of public works. It is that public undertakings are carelessly managed and much money spent to little purpose

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

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

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.