"There is a remarkable tendency in our time: when we require some ideas to solve a problem, we establish an organization instead. The organization is of no practical help, in fact it increases the confusion, does not do what it should, creates a growing bureaucracy that then becomes an end in itself; and finally goes on existing long after the entire world has forgotten when and why the organization was ever established."
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Felix Somary
Felix Somary (21 November 1881 – 11 July 1956) was a Swiss banker, economist, and commentator known as The Raven of Zurich.
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