“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn’t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three’s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.” ProblemTodayOrderFightingThreeChurchCompanyBoysCuttingHairMachinesUltimateWork OutRussiaTeethShopsRegionsIsolatedPastorHarvestIpodsSweatersCarpenterBarbersSalonsSissyChurch TodayLumberHair CutCardigansBarber ShopRocky Iv Author:Mark Driscoll
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCoursesCompanyBrokenFitModelsMachinesConventionalNeed A ChangeYou Need To Change Author:Peter Senge
“In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.” AgeCompanyMachinesMaking Money Author:Peter Senge
“I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.” ThinkingNeedsHeartCompanyMachines Author:Richard Branson
“The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.” NeedsCompanyMachinesExecution Author:Sam Altman
“Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.” PeopleIfsWorldWantLooksProblemBitsCompanyWeekMachinesCustomersSpeedApplesChanging The WorldGoing AwayOld DaysMacintosh Author:Guy Kawasaki
“We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.” NeedsCountryProcessPowerfulCompanyHugeMachinesElectionOur CountryReformVotingStolenElection Process Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.” EarthLyingCompanyBreakSunPlanetsRevolutionTaxesArgumentMachinesBillsSpotsAdsJohnsonFreezeCongressmanCopyingAccelerateTax BreaksEnronDepreciation Author:James Lileks
“In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.” YearsHas BeensEnoughJobsResultsCompanyStreetsWallInternetSceneLuckySummerMachinesLocalsGrandfatherEmailMy GrandfatherMessengersFreshmanSophomoreFaxSophomore YearFax Machines Author:Lewis Schiff
“That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.” PeopleWantHeartPersonsStuffCompanyHeardMy HeartMachinesMaking MoneyThat One Person Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.” PeopleThinkingLittlesProblemBigsProcessCompanyCreativeSmartMachinesComplexesBehaveSubstitutesGearsBig Companies Author:Elon Musk
“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.” MenNeedsTryingTwoLeftCompanySupportFireMilitaryGunMachinesSuicideConstantMarineMarine CorpsMachine GunsUsmcUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsMy Marine Author:Clifton B. Cates
“[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.” IfsMayBigsForceRealizingCompanyInformationPolicyTelevisionMachinesRadioJewIsraelNewspapersPropagandaConsiderationComplaintsJudaismMotion PicturesBig Companies Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.” PeopleBelieveLooksMovingLeadershipDifferencesCompanyIndustryToolsMachinesDon't BelieveEmsLocationCoal Author:Ken Hendricks