These mismanagement quotes will inspire you. Mismanagement is the process of managing something badly or wrongly.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mismanagement quotes, mismanagement sayings, and mismanagement proverbs.
Best Mismanagement Quotes
- “Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “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
- “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
- “The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. .” ~ Ruben Papian
- “The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.” ~ W. H. Auden -
“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.” ~ Dan Quayle
- “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
- “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
- “The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.” ~ Richard Ebeling
- “One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” ~ Elizabeth Bennett
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
- “The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,… it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.” ~ Henry Ford
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“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.” ~ George Eliot
- “The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.” ~ David Simon
- “I think that Rahm Emanuel`s political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.” ~ Joy-Ann Reid
- “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.” ~ Barry Boehm
- “There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement” ~ Norm Coleman
- “A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They’re seeking $100 billion. Here’s the good news: The government has responded what I believe is an appropriate counteroffer: A two-cent Navajo stamp.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer’s catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn’t cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but it’s a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.” ~ Marc Racicot
- “What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. 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
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“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?” ~ June Jordan
- “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.” ~ Gail Collins
- “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.” ~ John McCain
- “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.” ~ Stanley Fischer
- “My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.” ~ Harriot Kezia Hunt
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“The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “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.” ~ Joseph Stiglitz
- “”I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it.”” ~ Winston Churchill
- “For the ANC to cry ‘sabotage’ the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.” ~ Helen Zille
- “It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement, it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.” ~ Mark Foley
