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"A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man's effort in terms of money."

— von Mises, Ludwig event 1944

From Bureaucracy (p. 53)

Context: From the section "Bureaucratic Personnel Management" in Chapter II of Bureaucracy (1944), p. 53; Mises identifies the absence of a monetary yardstick for the bureaucrat's output, not rule-following itself, as what separates bureaucratic work from work judged by profit and loss.

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