#bureaucrat

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. ↗

— Robert Heller

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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

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Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. ↗

— Alan Keyes

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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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