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• Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

  Clayton Christensen

  Government, Fuel, Subsidies

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.210, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organi­zation is the province of economists. Inter­nal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Study, Economic, Theory

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• For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Self Confidence, Insecure

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• The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Religious, Giving, Facts

  "Worship Through Giving, Part 2" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

  Peter Drucker

  Real, Differences, People

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.255, Routledge

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• The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

  Chris Alexander

  Principles, Promotion, Individual

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• Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

  Bill Bright

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

  Peter Drucker

  Cost, Checks, Profit

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.106, Routledge

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• ... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.

  George Carlin

  Government, Trying, Important

  "George Carlin confronts reality". Interview with Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2004.

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• All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

  Warren Buffett

  Promise, Management, Investment

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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, Ideas

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

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• I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

  John McCain

  Believe, Seven Months, America

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

  Glenn Danzig

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Confused, People, Public Opinion

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• The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Fate, Ideas, Understanding

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• The idea that the United States of American might shut down its government over abortion and funding to an organization that is 0.01% of the U.S. budget seems completely insane. Anyone looking at this debate around the world is thinking 'What is this country doing? They have three wars going on, they're trying to manage major problems and they're thinking of shutting down their government over abortion?'

  Katty Kay

  Country, War, Thinking

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• In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Winning, League

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• Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

  Ken Blanchard

  Successful, Focus, Common

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• The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

  Ronald Reagan

  Block, Issues, Towns

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983”

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• The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

  Colin Powell

  Essence, Building

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• Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Israel, Years

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• Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

  Ed Holder

  College, Issues, Government

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• The solution to depression, among other things, is to go within and see if you can tune into more of what might want to come forth out of you. Then take action to follow the path of what attracts you. Reach out, read a book, call a friend, join an organization. Go toward that which attracts you.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Book, Tunes, Want

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  War, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Army, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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