If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.
Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
No one can have 33,000 employees and not do something wrong or have one of them do something wrong.
I think among different members there had been concerns that the RSC had grown so large, and it had many members who really didn't have that conservative voting records, which really is a testimony to what a positive brand conservatism is.
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.
The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
I want to be part of a club that is aiming to be one of the biggest in the world.
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
