Keyword: Bureaucracy

An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)
People

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Murphy’s Laws

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

Government Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.

Government

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)
Government Life

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

Government

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Government

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Government Time

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws