Big things Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear…

— Samora Machel

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

— Samora Machel

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

— Laozi

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

State is the nation socially organized.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

— Chris Terrio

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

— Jack Welch

Every large organization has problems and you've got to judge people based on how they address those problems.

— Tom Suozzi