Mcnerney Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin. — Mat McNerney

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows, — James McNerney

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years! — Mat McNerney

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery. — Mat McNerney

I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy. — Mat McNerney

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with. — Mat McNerney

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon. — James McNerney

I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant. — Mat McNerney

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge. — Jerry McNerney

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it. — Jerry McNerney

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough. — Mat McNerney

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands. — Mat McNerney

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself. — James McNerney

The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again. — Mat McNerney

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music. — Mat McNerney

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent. — Jerry McNerney

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well. — Mat McNerney

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines. — Mat McNerney

I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources. — Jerry McNerney

The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along. — James McNerney

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't. — James McNerney

I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum. — Mat McNerney

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks ... — Mat McNerney

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!) — Mat McNerney

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves. — James McNerney

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas. — Jerry McNerney

Most every album - and especially metal albums these days - are made in a way that you can grow tired of them very easily: They're made to be dissected and played on radio, released as singles or stuck on at parties. — Mat McNerney

Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again. — Mat McNerney

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*! — Mat McNerney

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons. — Mat McNerney

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it. — Mat McNerney

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different. — Mat McNerney

You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily! — Mat McNerney

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song. — Mat McNerney

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are. — Mat McNerney

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days. — Mat McNerney

I was lucky to have a great dad. — James McNerney