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Quotes About Inefficient

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
~ Dambisa Moyo
reason Amazon can take on such a slow, inefficient workforce," noted one itinerant worker on her blog, Tales from the Rampage. "Since they are getting us off government assistance for almost three months of the year, we are a tax deduction for them.
~ Jessica Bruder
And, naturally, the city caught the contagious air of entre - the working girls, poor ugly souls, wrapping soap in the factories and showing finery in the big stores, dreamed that perhaps in the spectacular excitement of this winter they might obtain for themselves the coveted male - as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
~ Kurt Cobain
The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.
~ Robert Michael Pyle
You're worse than evil. You're inefficient .
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
~ J. A. Konrath
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
~ Dave Matthews
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.
~ Charlie Munger
When the demon was muscling for action she was like the princess in the fairy tale from whose mouth toads fell. The small part of her which remained outside the dominion of her temper stood aghast but inefficient as one after the other the reptiles showered forth.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
~ Barry Sternlicht
You have not done badly with electricity in a hundred years. And you did well with steam in quite a short time. But all that is so cumbersome, so inefficient. And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion - dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous… You should be employing your resources, while you still have the, to tap and develop the use of power which is not finite. ..I sometimes
~ John Wyndham
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
~ Elliot Richardson
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Early in March, in the midst of discussions over the form of Operation Mincemeat, Montagu mounted a full-scale assault on Bevan, accusing him of being incompetent, mendacious, inefficient, and "almost completely ignorant25 of the German Intelligence Service, how they work and what they are likely to believe.
~ Ben Macintyre
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.
~ Christy Clark
Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen.
~ Om Malik
Several times the ancient Greeks attempted to utilize democratic mass participation in governing their city-states, but each time it resulted in tyranny. As the population expands, a democracy becomes increasingly inefficient and rowdy.
~ Ben Carson
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.
~ Jonathan Scott
Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.
~ Richard Cohen