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• An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

  Moshe Katsav

  Government, World, Stability

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

  Charles E. Sorensen

  Wisdom, Clogging Up, Achievement

  Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams (2006). “My Forty Years with Ford”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Decision, Infrastructure, Terrorist

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Army, Government, Drug

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Needs

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

  Chuck Hagel

  Leadership, Mean, Opportunity

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• I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

  Robert Mueller

  Fbi, Knows, One Thing

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• I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

  Nolan Ryan

  Four, Feels, Fortunate

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

  Theodor Adorno

  Insane, Destruction, Bigs

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, Player, Careers

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

  E. M. Forster

  Doe, Literature, Morality

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Energy

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reality, Decision, Action

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• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, People, Accomplishment

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

  James Bryant Conant

  Inspirational, Business, Ideas

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• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Music, Dance

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Would Be, Literature, Organized

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• My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Training

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• Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

  Arthur Helps

  Order, Routine, Paralysis

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.33, [s.n.]

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• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

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• Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

  Linus Pauling

  Cancer, Health, People

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• When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

  Paul Allen

  Believe, Media, Goal

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• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Ties, Sept 11, Terrorist

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