Companies

Scott Adams (in the cartoon strip Dilbert, 1995) - Leadership is nature’s way of removing morons from the productive flow.

Milton Berle - A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

John Gall (in Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail, 1975) - A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. (Gall's Law)