Great Organizations Quotes

#1. World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

George Schultz

#2. All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Simon Sinek

#3. In good organizations, leaders are treated with a sense of appreciation and respect by employees; in great organizations, employees are treated with the same esteem by leaders.

Kevin E. Phillips

#4. Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, proposed the idea of The Golden Circle contending great organizations create their foundation by first addressing WHY they exist, then HOW they go about doing what they do, and then finally, WHAT they do.

Jeremiah Gardner

#5. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Simon Sinek

#6. I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

Tony La Russa

#7. Henry Ford summed it up best. "If I had asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said a faster horse." This is the genius of great leadership. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see.

Simon Sinek

#8. Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Bill Gates

#9. I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

Mark Teixeira

#10. There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#11. The leaders of great organizations do not see people as a commodity to be managed to help grow the money. They see the money as the commodity to be managed to help grow their people.

Simon Sinek

#12. Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

James C. Collins

#13. Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

John Wooden

#14. I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

James C. Collins

#15. If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?

Tony Robbins

#16. The great task of the peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share of responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.

Frederic Eggleston

#17. Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

John P. Kotter

#18. Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Todd Stocker

#19. Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.

Adolf Hitler

#20. Organizations are great only when their people work as hard for each other as they do for themselves.

Sheri Staak

#21. I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

Daniel Lapin

#22. Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

Jo Bonner

#23. Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

Chellie Pingree

#24. New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.

Justin Tuck

#25. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.

Bob Anderson

#26. Great managers play favorites and spend most of their time with their most productive people. Not because they discriminate, but because they deserve the attention and have so much to teach you.

Curt Coffman

#27. The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

Peter Drucker

#28. The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Michael Bloomberg

#29. Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

Seth Godin

#30. The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.

Susan Scott

#31. I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

John Stumpf

#32. The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

Boomer Esiason

#33. As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

Louis Bacon

#34. There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

Moby

#35. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker