Best Mismanagement Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.”

Government Poor Pay Millions Products Waste Performances Dollars Height Incomplete Bonus Mismanagement Poor Performance Government Waste

Author:Jim Gibbons

“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.”

Action Poor Development Cost Projects Increase Responsible Management Following Factors Software Software Development Mismanagement Poor Management

Author:Barry Boehm

“What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”

People Thinking I Can Politics Hundred Management Mad Acres Mismanagement

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?”

Men Care Running America White Cities New York Nuclear Health Care New York City White Man Boast Subway Filth Jeopardy Armament Mismanagement

Book:On call: political essays

Source: On call: political essays

“The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.”

Pain Suffering Grief Habit Mismanagement

Author:W. H. Auden

“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

Goodness Appearance Mismanagement

Author:Elizabeth Bennett

“The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.”

Years Faces Economy Economic Conflict Authority Tasks International Complicated Isolation Republic Devastated Yugoslavia Mismanagement

Author:Stanley Fischer

“A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.”

Revolution Violent Mismanagement

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.”

States Form Resources Tyranny Inevitable Goods Collectivism Mismanagement

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.”

Thinking Giving I Can War Worst Heavy Defense Secretary Mismanagement

Author:John McCain

“I think that Rahm Emanuel`s political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.”

Thinking Political Difficult Careers Revive Mismanagement

Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.”

“The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.”

Doe Happens Risk Position Huge Financial Credit Vulnerable Shore Regulation Risk-taking Financial System Mismanagement Financial Regulation

Author:Barack Obama

“If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.”

Ifs Jobs Hate Hours Very Good Financial Chemicals Spouse Hate You Dependency Mismanagement Jobs You Hate

Author:Max Lucado

“Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.”

Leader Good Things Corruption Mismanagement

Author:Femi Kuti

“China's accumulation of reserves is a result of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian financial crisis a decade or so ago. If countries know they can't rely on the IMF to help them, their best defense is their own reserve cushion. In a time of spreading global recession, too much emphasis on savings in surplus countries like China can impede prospects for global growth.”

Country Helping Growth Crisis Financial Rely Financial Crisis Mismanagement

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”

Enough Funny Politics Loss Dues Bankers Deposits Bankers And Banks Mismanagement Banks And Money

Author:Dan Quayle

“Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.”

Should Government Able Loss Company Effects Taxes Profit Accidents Socialism Corporate Mismanagement

Author:Ralph Nader

“The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.”

Way Courses Company Blame Lawyer Broke Bankruptcy Mismanagement

Book:The Rainmaker

Source: The Rainmaker

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

Men Two Young Pride Goodness Prejudice Appearance Young Man Darcy Mismanagement

Book:8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.”

Men Want Inspirational Found Consequence Luck Ill Neglect Application Providence Effectiveness Mismanagement

Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.”