24 Inefficiency Quotes for You to Enjoy

When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player. Milton Friedman

Government Good Freedom Active Good Intentions Tries Cost Morality Pursuit Come Economy Inefficiency Motivation Referee Loss Legislate Lack Intentions Interests Should Rearrange Help Special Special Interests Player

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates

Technology Business Will First Automation Rule Magnify Operation Inefficiency Inefficient Efficiency Efficient Any Used Second Applied

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. Pope John Paul II

Experience Increases Adding Alienation Collectivism Rather Economic Countries Sadly Inefficiency Does Historical Lack Socialist Away Basic Necessities

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy

Saves Only Inefficiency Bureaucracy The Only Thing Us Thing

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Albert Ellis

Think Gene Had Inefficiency Freud Efficiency

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous. Alex Gibney

Dangerous Care Patient Pay Further Cost Costs Hospitals Fail Drug Companies Inefficiency Insurance Insurance Companies Cover Where Then Us Really Should Paying Companies Specialists Here Raise

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. Crystal Eastman

Man Ignorance Matters Carefully Telephone Telephone Number About Crumbs Cheerful Household Him Protects Sort Inefficiency Cultivated Which Average Average Man Number

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. Ellen Wilkinson

Mother Poverty Pay Sick Extravagance Could Inefficiency Protest Fitted Commercialism Against Who Illness Waste Treatment

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. Evgeny Morozov

Life Enemy Political Impossible Thought Hypocrisy Too Took Our Kind About Never Like Partisanship Inefficiency Always Been Ambiguity Get Roles Forgetting Social Them Social Life Granted Rid Play Deeply Things

I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it. Ginni Rometty

Health Care Think Trillion Ripe Absolutely Industry Health Care Inefficiency Lots

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. Henry Charles Carey

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. Kathryn Minshew

Day You Every Day Every Spell Everyone Everything Say Out Launching Easy Disaster Inefficiency Making Making Decisions Lot Quickly Get Done Pitches Different Decisions Flexibility Flexible Team Help Founding Start-Up Need

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. Nathan Myhrvold

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. Nathan Myhrvold

Our Earth Thoroughly Leaders Checks Checks And Balances Most Balances Inefficiency Built Ultimate Prize America Goes Any Many

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. Paul Samuelson

Good Worth Cause Every Some Inefficiency Good Cause

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs. Piyush Goyal

Politics You People Burden Tackle Higher Involved Inefficiency

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. Randy Neugebauer

Alone Good People Behavior Reward Will Think Market Marketplace Markets Punish System Corrects Kind Bad Bad Behavior About Determines Inefficiency Understand Left Very Efficient Good Behavior Thing

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. Richard V. Allen

Party Believe Other President Members Possible Must Imperative Could Select Cabinet Install He New Imply Inefficiency Does Context His Quickly Contribute Which Inaction Should Team Appoint

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. Seth Shostak

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. Mitt Romney

Government Time Mountains Out Federal Federal Government Inefficiency Duplication Cut Waste

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