47 Inefficient Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. Annie Besant

Government Good People First Local Bad Administration Bad Government Case Prosper Inefficient Effective Very Suffer Second

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom

Thoughts Fear Worry Inefficient Around Center Cycle

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. Dambisa Moyo

Government Army Stream Money Free Long Power Nothing Aid Way Bad Citizens Constant Bad Government More Perfect Take Simply Inefficient Account Disgruntled Taxes Pays Keep Raise Need Flows

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. Adam Weishaupt

Political Sleepy Deficient Religious Sadly Because Inefficient Leave Domination Ordinary Dose Us Prejudices Sermon Alas

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. Elliot Richardson

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends. Abraham Maslow

Good You Man Sickness Respecting See Neurosis Toward Most Inefficient Understand Effort Psychiatrists Ends Might Compassionate Below

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale. Robin S. Sharma

Success Complacent Seductive Make Inefficient Stale Success Is

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. P. J. O'Rourke

Politics Government Difficult Conservatism Our Way Our Lives Bit Easy Easy Way Intrusive Something More Uncomfortable Inefficient Fiscal Scope Just Size Which Really Express Grown Lives

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. Barbara Amiel

Own Controlling Benefit Run Having Developed Developed Countries Highly Countries Empire Economies Inefficient Soviet Soviet Union Interests Union

North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. Barbara Demick

Old Black Power Ruin Collapse Collapsed Stations Had Cheap Propped Faded Ally Economy Inefficient Korea Up North North Korea Soviet Soviet Union Oil Which Fuel Communist Union Early Early 1990s

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. Deborah Eisenberg

Paper Writer Spoiled Inefficient Lot Very Waste Need

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs. Dustin Moskovitz

Good People Better Complacency Philanthropy Enough Programs Out Crowds Results Inefficient Lot Trying Organizations Figure Even Wasteful

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems. George Soros

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry. J. A. Konrath

Archaic Industry Inefficient Publishing

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards. Jacob Rees-Mogg

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. James Lovelock

Thought Energy Hopelessly Unpleasant Rushed Price Schemes Renewable Renewable Energy Inefficient Without Any Personally Stand Largely

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true. Jeremy Grantham

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