Antony Jay Quotes

• The bigger the organization, the fewer the jobs worth doing.

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• The great modern corporations are so similar to independent or semi-independent states of the past that they can only be fully understood in terms of political or constitutional history, and management can only be properly studied as a branch of government.

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• From now on you can keep the lot. Take every single thing you’ve got, Your land, your wealth, your men, your dames, Your dream of independent power,  And dear old Konrad Adenauer, And stick them up your Eiffel Tower.

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• You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it’s his job to watch the tide.

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

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• The Opposition aren’t really the Opposition. They’re just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

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• ‘Referring the matter to a committee’ can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

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• Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

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• He’s suffering from Politicians’ Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

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Birth:	20th April, 1930
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Broadcaster, Television Director, Writer

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Sir Antony Rupert Jay is an English writer, broadcaster and director, famous for the co-authorship, with Jonathan Lynn, of the successful British political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister He has also written The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression. Sir Antony had a distinguished career as a broadcaster and in public relations, for which he was created a Knight Bachelor in 1988. From 1963 to 1964 he was Head of Television Talk Features, before leaving the BBC to take up a career as a freelance writer and producer. He was interviewed in the BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory! and The Trap.

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