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Bureaucracy
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a mans effort in terms of money. | Bureaucracy | p. 53 | Bureaucracy |
| A government enterprise can never be commercialized no matter how many external features of private enterprise are superimposed on it. | A Critique of Interventionism | p. 159 | Bureaucracy |
| Bureaucratic conduct of affairs is conduct bound to comply with detailed rules and regulations fixed by the authority of a superior body. It is the only alternative to profit management. . . . Whenever the operation of a system is not directed by the profit motive, it must be directed by bureaucratic rules. | Human Action | p. 307; p. 310 | Bureaucracy |
| Bureaucratic management is management of affairs which cannot be checked by economic calculation. | Bureaucracy | p. 48 | Bureaucracy |
| If you have to convince a group of people who are not directly dependent on a solution of a problem, you will never succeed. | Economic Policy | pp. 30-31 | Bureaucracy |
| In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain. | Bureaucracy | p. 55 | Bureaucracy |
| No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. | Bureaucracy | p. 64 | Bureaucracy |
| Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator. | Bureaucracy | p. 67 | Bureaucracy |
| Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures. | Omnipotent Government | p. x | Bureaucracy |
| Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks. | Bureaucracy | p. 67 | Bureaucracy |