Public Administration || Useful Quotes

There are numerous quotes among the various administrative thinkers. Our aim should be to remember one pertaining to each topic.


“It is best that Public Administration not be defined.” – Fredrick.C.Mosher

“If ever our civilization collapses, it will be mainly due to the breakdown of administration.” – W.B.Donham

“Political questions are not Administrative questions.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Material rewards are ineffective beyond subsistence levels.” – C. Barnard

“As long as the study of administration is not comparative, the claim for a science of administration is rather hollow.” – Robert Dahl

“The Office of DM is like a tortoise on the back of which lies the giant elephant of Indian Administration.” – Ramsey McDonald

“If we are not rewarding success, we are probably rewarding failure.” – Osborne and Gaebler

“Recruitment is the cornerstone of the whole public personnel system.” – Glenn Stahl

“The idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape; it is time to dismantle this mental structure.” – Wolfgang Sachs

“An organization is a system of consciously coordinated activities of two or more.” – Chester Barnard.