Organization Not Quotes

#1. My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

Dikembe Mutombo

#2. Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization - not to mention their reason for being - reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.

Neil Postman

#3. Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.

Richard Moran

#4. Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Edwin Grant Conklin

#5. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.

Liz Weber

#6. Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Phil Crosby

#7. I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

David Blatt

#8. I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers ... I mean Chargers.

Bill Belichick

#9. I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

Saul Alinsky

#10. A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Jack Welch

#11. Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

Charlie Norwood

#12. United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

Adam Hartung

#13. this book itself is not a book on what people at the top do or should do. It is addressed to everyone who, as a knowledge worker, is responsible for actions and decisions which are meant to contribute to the performance capacity of his organization.

Peter F. Drucker

#14. The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

Aruna Roy

#15. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

Stuart Chase

#16. Well, I don't. Not absolutely. But adopting making money' as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn't one item on that list that's worth a damn if the company isn't making money.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#17. the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.

Gillian Tett

#18. Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

Peter Senge

#19. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

Ryne Sandberg

#20. A creative organization does not resent conflicts over concepts; it resolves them.

Kevin Ashton

#21. Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [ ... ] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

Clay Shirky

#22. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

Rick Warren

#23. 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

#24. As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

Patrick Lencioni

#25. I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.

Rob Portman

#26. I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

#27. It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.

Donna Otto

#28. The reason why students do not progress even after receiving priceless teachings and spiritual techniques from the teacher is because they do not have a schedule; the sattvic energy is missing. Sattvic people establish the rhythm, they preserve the movement, and they preserve the organization.

Choa Kok Sui

#29. The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.

Noam Chomsky

#30. True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

Stephen Covey

#31. The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

John Bruton

#32. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#33. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

#34. Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.

Simon T. Bailey

#35. Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

Wyndham Lewis

#36. She might not have enjoyed genealogy like they did, she wasn't even sure who her great grandparents were (to this group's horror) but they could all agree that there ought to be an organization like PETA for the ethical treatment of old homes and structures.

Rebecca Patrick-Howard

#37. As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

Nahum Goldmann

#38. It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

Gunnar Myrdal

#39. I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

Robin Hobb

#40. Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

John R. Allen

#41. Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.

Sheryl Sandberg

#42. Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#43. Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Peter Drucker

#44. We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.

Carl Johan Calleman

#45. The church does not exist to provide an ethos for democracy or any other form of social organization, but stands as a political alternative to every nation, witnessing to the kind of social life possible for those that have been formed by the story of Christ.

Stanley Hauerwas

#46. I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

Darell Hammond

#47. You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Arthur Blank

#48. I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

Charles Stross

#49. The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

Jimmy Carter

#50. Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Arthur Helps

#51. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.

James A. Garfield

#52. We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.

Alex Jones

#53. To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

Marcus Garvey

#54. Staffing the opportunities instead of the problems not only creates the most effective organization, it also creates enthusiasm and dedication.

Peter F. Drucker

#55. When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.

G. Campbell Morgan

#56. I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

Walt Disney

#57. 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

#58. The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood.

Freeman Dyson

#59. The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Steven Pinker

#60. Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.

Alex Gibney

#61. The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other's life because that's absurd.

Samael Aun Weor

#62. If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

Anuj

#63. The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

Nick Woodman

#64. I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations.

Bill Maher

#65. Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

Friedrich Hayek

#66. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Assata Shakur

#67. The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

Fred Funk

#68. 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

#69. Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.

Peter Drucker

#70. America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Robert M. Hutchins

#71. I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Winston Churchill

#72. The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

Buzz Aldrin

#73. The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

#74. An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting
people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for
themselves.

Guy Debord

#75. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

Robert Bales

#76. You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

Jack Dorsey

#77. Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Max De Pree

#78. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

#79. There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up ... to set the organization back on the right direction.

Abigail Johnson

#80. Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#81. A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Aaron Sorkin

#82. Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.

Lemony Snicket

#83. Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

John Doolittle

#84. A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Earl Weaver

#85. Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.

A.A. Milne

#86. If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

Troy Perry

#87. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Ted Danson

#88. I'm not part of any organization that has initials.

Noah

#89. Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Yochai Benkler

#90. Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

Russell Kirk

#91. Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.

David Meerman Scott

#92. A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.

Mark Dever

#93. I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm going to believe that. Women are notoriously bad at math.

Bonnie McFarlane

#94. Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives ... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.

Geoff Davis

#95. Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Angela Carter

#96. The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.

Alan Ryan

#97. Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

Jose Serrano

#98. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Mark Miller

#99. It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

Herbert Butterfield

#100. In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Bertrand Russell