Top 100 Work Organization Quotes
#1. In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein
#2. The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#3. I work for a secret organization called The Seductors that specializes in gaining certain objects or pieces of information for our clients. Of course, to seduce a target, you only need one thing: sex.
My name is Jade. I'm a Seductor, and I can't even explain to you how much I love my job.
B.L. Wilde
#4. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
Bill Jensen
#5. 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
#6. For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#7. I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.
Kris Dunn
#8. The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify his name.
Jim Cymbala
#9. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.
Lauren Mayberry
#10. In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?
Bruce Feiler
#11. The NAACP is a wonderful organization ... But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
Dick Gregory
#12. No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#13. No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
Mary Burke
#14. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
Jay Chiat
#15. I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
Steve Yzerman
#16. Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
Bill Drayton
#17. ESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou Holtz
#18. Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
Peter Diamandis
#19. Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked
with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.
Saul Alinsky
#20. leaders' work as teachers often starts with their recognition of an important capacity that is lacking in an organization.
Peter M. Senge
#21. I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.
Judith M Bardwick
#22. Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.
Jon C. Madonna
#23. We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
Bo Bennett
#24. I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
Kavita Ramdas
#25. Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.
Marilyn Johnson
#26. If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.
Dan Pontefract
#27. Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale.
Heather Simmons
#28. An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Dee Hock
#29. Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.
Mortimer Adler
#30. Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women
Julie B. Beck
#31. The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.
Samuel Chadwick
#32. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
Frances Hesselbein
#33. The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
Simon Sinek
#34. I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
Randy Falco
#35. A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.
Ken Schwaber
#36. There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.
Tom DeMarco
#37. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#39. Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#40. The mission will describe how the organization will work to address the issue of the cause. The cause is the greater issue that the organization advocates for. It is in the combination of cause and mission that the organization will find purpose. Where
Brian Sooy
#41. No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.
Reginald Fessenden
#42. Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
William Julius Wilson
#43. Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
Ricardo Semler
#44. Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
Mark Cuban
#45. We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.
Julian Assange
#46. Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
Max De Pree
#47. Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend
Insanity ... She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.
Nora Roberts
#48. If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
Claus Von Stauffenberg
#49. The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations.
Asa Don Brown
#50. The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
Brian Tracy
#51. 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
#53. I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.
Mark Mason
#54. I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
Jim Wallis
#55. 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
#56. Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.
Asa Don Brown
#57. 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
#58. Once you have created some great technology, there remains the problem of effectively transferring it to the development organization," Myhrvold wrote. "Failure to do this effectively is a primary reason that research work is ineffective at many companies.
Anonymous
#59. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
Frank Plumpton Ramsey
#60. As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
Jack Dangermond
#61. 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
#62. Typically a command and control organization uses a top-down approach in allocating work: it defines a title for an individual, like Sales Manager, and then based on that tries to figure out what kind of tasks the person
Sebastian Klein
#63. Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Maria Montessori
#64. Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
Alan Cranston
#65. If I'm wrong, and you find yourself in an organization where sucking up is in fact a good way to get ahead, look for a new job. It's not a quality organization after all, no matter how glittering its public reputation may be. Life is too short to work there.
Charles Murray
#66. You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
Mark Twain
#67. Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it
Tim Brown
#68. Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.
Owen Marshall
#69. An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.
Clay Shirky
#70. 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
#71. Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials.
Douglas Wilson
#72. I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work
Dalai Lama
#73. New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy
#74. Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Tony Judt
#75. Obviously in a work capacity I've been tremendously busy running The Trump Organization now that my father's on the campaign trail and my own company and the growth of that. So it's been an amazing time, a wild experience, and an incredible one.
Ivanka Trump
#76. When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.
Natalia Vodianova
#77. Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
John Wooden
#78. We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.
Lance Secretan
#79. The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen Covey
#80. Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.
Kurt Busch
#81. Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no power on earth that can keep intercession out.
Richard Halverson
#82. Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
Ken Blanchard
#83. If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
Adam Driver
#84. Determined and focused people tend to work harder and get tasks done more promptly. They stay married longer and have deeper networks of friends. They often have higher-paying jobs. But this questionnaire is not intended to test personal organization. Rather, it's designed to measure a personality
Charles Duhigg
#85. I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.
Edgar Ramirez
#86. To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.
John Dos Passos
#87. That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.
George W. Bush
#88. Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.
Nelson Rockefeller
#89. 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
#90. I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.
Frances Hesselbein
#91. If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.
Barack Obama
#92. 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
#93. If human beings are in general too irrational and selfish to work out the challenges of social organization in a productive and positive manner, then they are far too irrational and selfish to be given the monopolistic violence of state power, or vote for their leaders.
Stefan Molyneux
#94. The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.
Curious George Brigade
#95. I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.
David Letterman
#96. At work, our sense of commitment and control depends more on our direct boss than on anyone else. When we have a supportive boss, our bond with the organization strengthens and we feel a greater span of influence. As
Adam M. Grant
#97. It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.
Paul Cullen
#98. I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
Larry Page
#99. An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
Stokely Carmichael
#100. Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
Bob Edwards
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