Michael Nesmith Quotes

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

The spirit of manufacture has taken deep root among us, and its foundations are laid in too great expense to be abandoned.

In modern societies, all things, even in the military department of affairs, are decided, not by individual effort, but by the combined operations of numbers;

I do not believe that reorganization will fix what is wrong with our intelligence community….Failures were caused by performance, not organization.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

Industrial Revolution

Good organization does not necessarily mean it will produce good policy. But bad organization will almost never produce good policy.

Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory.

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

I will take the best from each system and introduce it in Russia..

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.