Mismanagement Quotes

• Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Cynical, Political

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• The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Depression, Government, Unemployment

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revolution, Violent

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• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Loss, Government, Able

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• 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.

  Femi Kuti

  Leader, Corruption, Good Things

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229

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

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  States, Form, Resources

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• The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. .

  Ruben Papian

  Emotion, Pallets, Enjoy

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.16

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

  W. H. Auden

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

  W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939”

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

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Loss, Bankers

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• 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.

  John Grisham

  Way, Lawyer, Blame

  John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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• 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.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Dollars, Bonus

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• The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

  Richard Ebeling

  Abuse, Gold, Paper

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

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Appearance, Goodness

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• The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

  Mark Dayton

  Administration, Serious, Madness

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• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth

  Wangari Maathai

  Technology, Order, Skills

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Hate, Financial

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• 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.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

  Isabella Beeton

  Dinner, Way, Source

  1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

  Pauline Hanson

  Country, Years, Legends

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

  Jung Chang

  Writing, Swans, Research

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Two

  Jane Austen (2006). “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”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

  Mike Pence

  Teeth, Reform, Scandal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Tragedy, Financial

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