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Quotes About Mismanagement

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
~ Youssou N'Dour
Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.
~ Said Musa
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
My main frustration is that NJ Transit continually misleads the residents of South Jersey.
~ Jeff Van Drew
During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.
~ Clive Lewis
When they aren't being incompetent, city officials like to relax with a little corruption.
~ Bill Bryson
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
~ Louise Jameson
The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
~ Sam Graves
Angola's vast reserves of oil and diamonds should make it one of Africa's richest countries, but the politicians—Deofina calls them the donos, or owners—spend everything either on the war or themselves.
~ Karl Maier
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
~ Steven Solomon
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
~ Mark Dayton
The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.
~ C.J. Box
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
~ David R. Brower
Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.
~ Charles Stross
The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
~ Enda Kenny
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
~ Gita Gopinath
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
~ Dan Quayle
Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
The slow, mismanaged arrival of armored vehicles and bulletproof plates for flak vests was only the most conspicuous demonstration of how the Iraq War, like every war -- just or unjust, won or lost -- became a conspiracy of the old and powerful against the young and dutiful.
~ George Packer
Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only—MISMANAGEMENT.
~ Jack London
Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.
~ Jon Stewart
The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.
~ Milton Friedman
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
~ Ernest Hemingway