The Vacuum Created By A Failure To

Expenditure Rises To Meet Income.

Administrators Make Work For Each Other So That They Can Multiply The Number Of Their Subordinates And Enhance Their Prestige.

The Man Who Is Denied The Opportunity Of Taking Decisions Of Importance Begins To Regard As Important The Decisions He Is Allowed To Take. He Becomes Fussy About Filing, Keen On Seeing That Pencils Are Sharpened, Eager To Ensure That The Windows Are Open (or Shut) And Apt To Use Two Or Three Different-colored Inks.

People Of Great Ability Do Not Emerge, As A Rule, From The Happiest Background. So Far As My Own Observation Goes, I Would Conclude That Ability, Although Hereditary, Is Improved By An Early Measure Of Adversity And Improved Again By A Later Measure Of Success.

If There Is A Way To Delay An Important Decision, The Good Bureaucracy, Public Or Private, Will Find It.