Top 40 Inefficiency Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Inefficiency Quotes from famous people such as Eamon de Valera, Yanis Varoufakis, Mitt Romney, Paul Samuelson, Sucheta Dalal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
Yanis Varoufakis
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
Mitt Romney
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
Paul Samuelson
We do not have to sit back and suffer the consequences of corrupt government deals and inefficiency, but unless a large number of people are convinced of this, nothing will change.
Sucheta Dalal
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
Tim Murphy
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency.
Richard Lamm
I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?
Peter Hitchens
When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
Here’s where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.
Alex Gibney
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Albert Ellis
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
Tim Murphy
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
Paul Hawken
High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation’s economy.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our ‘leaders’ are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Nathan Myhrvold
Politics is involved when you don’t tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
Piyush Goyal
The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.
Travis Kalanick
Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don’t have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You don’t have to wait for government. You can actually self-organize and build institutions bottom up.
Maria Ressa
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the ‘other’ party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Eugene McCarthy
Watching the economies in various parts of the world, I believe that there is scope for improvement everywhere. There is some corruption and inefficiency everywhere.
Athanasios Orphanides
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Albert Ellis
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the ‘other’ party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our ‘leaders’ are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Nathan Myhrvold
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey
The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
Yanis Varoufakis
An orthodox belief in big government’s inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry’s inability to compete with big government.
Timothy Noah
High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, an

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation’s economy.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Watching the economies in various parts of the world, I believe that there is scope for improvement everywhere. There is some corruption and inefficiency everywhere.
Athanasios Orphanides
My mother’s illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
Mitt Romney
My mother’s illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson
I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?
Peter Hitchens
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
I think health care is absolutely ripe. It’s an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it.
Ginni Rometty
We’ve never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It’s been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they’re always the enemy.
Evgeny Morozov