Top 100 Business Organization Quotes
#1. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
#2. In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.
Larry Burkett
#3. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
Steve Jobs
#5. A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
Steve Blank
#6. Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Theodore Levitt
#7. Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#8. The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every dip in the business life cycle.
Pearl Zhu
#9. Our businesses are stable, and Fortis is on a promising trajectory. I want to assure our business partners and colleagues that I will continue to guide the organization to realize its full potential.
Shivinder Mohan Singh
#10. When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?
Henry Cloud
#11. The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
Matthew Stewart
#12. We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.
Jim Barksdale
#13. The organization likes to do their dirty business where no one can see it.
Julie Kagawa
#14. In every case, you must ensure that the organization is really ready to have desired behaviors happen on day one and become business as usual. If you do that, you can feel confident that
Steve Jacobs
#15. I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.
Randy Falco
#16. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
Karl E. Weick
#17. I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
Bernard Arnault
#18. Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.
Dennis Bakke
#19. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.
Peter Drucker
#20. Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.
Ivanka Trump
#21. And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
Harvey Pekar
#22. A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.
Meg Whitman
#23. The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers.
Shep Hyken
#24. An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness" of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.
Pearl Zhu
#25. Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
Theodore Roosevelt
#26. Perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#27. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave Barry
#28. Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.
Leonard L. Berry
#29. The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
John Foster Dulles
#30. In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
Ron D. Burton
#31. Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.
Russell L. Ackoff
#32. How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
Bob Myers
#33. A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
Henry Ford
#34. In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.
Richard Koch
#35. How engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine
Jim Craig
#36. I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
#37. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.
Stephen Gillett
#38. My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
Walt Disney
#39. Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.
Clayton Christensen
#40. The future of digital organizations is to be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly.
Pearl Zhu
#41. If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.
Stephen Jin-Woo Kim
#42. A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.
Mary Kay Ash
#43. My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization
Ivanka Trump
#44. Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
Peter Drucker
#45. An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Dee Hock
#46. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.
Sameh Elsayed
#47. Who was the greatest business man ever ... The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? ... It was Jesus ... Jesus was the founder of modern business ... he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!
Paul Harding
#48. There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.
Robert D. Hare
#49. The goal is to create a "chit," or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.
Carla Harris
#50. After all, your company doesn't define customer experience. Customers do. Customer experience is based on how your customers perceive your organization and how well you meet their needs when they interact with, hear about, and do business with your company.
Michael Hinshaw
#51. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.
Kevin E. Phillips
#53. Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.
Robert Heller
#54. Culture is the organization's fingerprint.
Pearl Zhu
#55. Every organization should strive to achieve the 3 Rs of Business: Everyone doing the Right things, Doing them Right, and at the Right time.
Forrest Breyfogle
#56. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
Johnathan Joseph
#57. Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.
Richard Moran
#58. But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
Fernando Flores
#59. The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#60. To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
James Hunter
#62. In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.
Tony Alessandra
#63. The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.
Lewis E. Platt
#64. The primary asset of any business is its organization.
William Feather
#65. An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.
Scribendi
#66. It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.
Sonja Sohn
#67. Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.
Pearl Zhu
#68. If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
Robert Noyce
#69. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
Ray Anderson
#71. In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
William Feather
#72. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.
Thomas J. Watson
#73. When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for decades. I reward their loyalty to the organization and to me. I know that they'll always be dedicated to what we're trying to accomplish.
Donald Trump
#74. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.
Ratan Tata
#75. My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years.
Lisa Kessler
#76. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. Critical questions from inside and outside the organization should essentially center on: How will this decision promote or prevent the strategic intent, and the corporate mission and values? What impact will this decision have on individual development (business value/social contribution)? Where do
Julia Sloan
#78. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#79. The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.
Esther Dyson
#80. If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.
David J. Greer
#81. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.
That's not what leadership is any more.
Phil Dourado
#82. I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
David Lee Roth
#83. There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
Aaron Levie
#84. An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
#85. One of the formulas to build a successful business is to nurture an "adaptability trait" in an organization's culture.
Pearl Zhu
#86. Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.
David Livermore
#87. The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
Susan Jacoby
#88. Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
Leila Janah
#89. 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.
Will Rogers
#90. every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.
Patrick Lencioni
#91. Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.
David Meerman Scott
#92. I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
#93. The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations.
Kevin Shields
#94. No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.
James G. March
#95. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
Pearl Zhu
#96. The first step toward enhancing performance in an organization is realizing that improvement is possible only if participants abandon business-as-usual practices. Doing so requires recognizing and rejecting three prevailing myths.
Anders Ericsson
#97. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#98. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
Sameh Elsayed
#99. We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization's success a reality.
Vern Dosch
#100. Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
Laura Lang
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