Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Hubbard’s aphorism skewers a common human habit: treating avoidable outcomes as inevitable. By calling out “bad management,” he points to failures of planning, leadership, and responsibility—choices made (or not made) by people—rather than impersonal fate. The line implies that labeling consequences as “destiny” can be a convenient excuse that shields decision-makers from accountability and discourages reform. It also carries a democratic, practical moral: many hardships attributed to luck or providence are actually the result of misallocation, incompetence, or neglect, and therefore can be corrected by better judgment and organization.