An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I… — Rands Copy Share Image
“Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Watching the economies in various parts of the world, I believe that there is scope for improvement everywhere. There is some corruption… — Athanasios Orphanides Copy Share Image
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively… — Ellen MacArthur Copy Share Image
[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t. — Jim Blasingame Copy Share Image
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. — David Korten Copy Share Image
If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.” — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or… — Sherman Edwards Copy Share Image
The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image