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  • 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.

    Brother   Men   Iron  
  • The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

    War   Government   Oil  
    "There's no such thing as a free lunch".
  • Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

    Funny   Loss   Bankers  
  • 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 (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
  • 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 (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
  • 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 (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

  • 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.

  • "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."

    War   Blood   Sweat  
    Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”
  • 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.

    Golf   Bonus   Golden  
    Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.
  • 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.

    Country   Years   Legends  
    "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
  • 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.

    Daughter   Book   School  
    "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.
  • 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.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

    Abuse   Gold   Paper  
  • Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

    Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.106, 谷月社
  • It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

  • 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.

    Loss   Government   Able  
  • 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.

  • Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    War   Thinking   Giving  
    "McCain: Rumsfeld Was One of the Worst". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2007.
  • 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.

    Thinking   People   Mad  
    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.643, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

    Men   Suffering   Dinner  
    1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Pride   Men   Two  
    Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Jobs   Hate   Financial  
    Source: www.preaching.com
  • The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

    Pain   Grief   Suffering  
    W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939”
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