Business Organization Quotes

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

Larry Burkett

Organization, Alternatives, Absolutes

Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.

Larry Burkett

Smart, Successful, Organization

Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

"War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Inspirational, Fear, Business

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

B. C. Forbes

Confidence, Men, Organization

"Keys to Success".

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Tony Hsieh

Motivational, Character, Destiny

FaceBook post by Tony Hsieh from Feb 12, 2014

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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

Success, Buddhism, Winning

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Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

Constantinos C. Markides

Happy, Winning, Organization

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.

Richard M. Weaver

Men, Odds, Organization

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The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

Theodore Roosevelt

Children, Father, Opportunity

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In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

Don Tapscott

Country, Organization, Islands

"The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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