Inefficiency Quotes

63 quotes by 58 authors

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you… — Jack Handey
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number -… — Crystal Eastman
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler
As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. — David Korten
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe
Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild. — Bobby Jindal
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for… — Glenn Ligon
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside… — Thomas Sowell
Even if your companyâ€™s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely wonâ€™t. — Jim Blasingame
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency… — Al Gore
No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the… — Gordon Tullock
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. — Eamon de Valera
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. — David Korten
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… — Kathryn Minshew
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like… — Clarence Day
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… — Bill Gates
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. — Albert Ellis
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency. — Richard Lamm

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