Quotes About Inefficiency

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

The civi service is a place where, in the stairs, those who arrive late bump into those who leave early!

How our government works ... it doesn't.

Myron was playing Mr. Bureaucrat to the hilt; nothing made a person feel more impotent. There is no darker pit than the blank stare of a bureaucrat.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

What's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don't necessarily end up so. That's the feeling I have, as someone who's felt this, who's experienced it.

Competition has taken place at the wrong levels, and on the wrong things. It has gravitated to a zero-sum competition, in which the gains of one system participant come at the expense of others. Participants compete to shift costs to one another, accumulate bargaining power, and limit services. This kind of competition does not create value for patients, but erodes quality, fosters inefficiency, creates excess capacity, and drives up administrative costs, among other nefarious effects.

Andrei Shleifer writes in his excellent book Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance:

What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

By early 1996 Americans were spending $1.5 trillion a year on their health care and about a third of that was pure waste. Much of the waste could be avoided simply by eliminating the paperwork.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

highly corrupt governments usually have big problems in delivering services, enforcing laws, and representing the public interest.

A fair proportion of each teacher's day is frittered away on pointless paperwork and bureaucracy...In my long experience ,meetings rarely achieve anything useful;they consist of of hours of endless,tortuous waffle and no decisions about anything.

First, there are stark differences. Second, young men of color are clearly targeted for more aggressive treatment. Third, these differences are not fully justified by differences in criminality. Fourth, the aggressive use of traffic stops as a tool to investigate possible criminal behavior, though justified as part of the war on crime, is surprisingly inefficient, rarely leading to arrests for contraband.

Durante los ocho años de presidencia de George W. Bush, y los primeros cuatro de Barack Obama, el país desembolsó un billón de dólares para crear la estructura de seguridad más mastodóntica, engorrosa, duplicada y tal vez ineficaz que el mundo había conocido jamás.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

si el Gobierno fija aranceles a la importación de productos, simplemente estará orientado la economía a producir de manera ineficiente unos bienes y servicios que están disponibles más baratos en el extranjero, perjudicando a gran cantidad de empresarios internos cuya demanda desaparecerá

Because I travel so much, my biggest pet peeve is dealing with travelers - the travelers who can't figure things out. My pet peeve is people who just have no idea how to travel.

As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a poorly run software project is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hardly ever short enough.

When people don't pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.