Organization Quotes - Page 29

• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Volunteer, Community, Charity

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• Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Political, Important

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Goal, Focus, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.75, Penguin

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, Way, Problem

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• When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Communication, Innovation

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, People, Goal

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• The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Army, Differences

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  House, Despair, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

  Gail Sheehy

  Meditation, Growth, Demand

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• You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Jobs, Long

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• Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Two, Source

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

  John L. Lewis

  Heart, Support, Political

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

  Karl Albrecht

  Intelligent, Law, People

  Karl Albrecht (2003). “The Power of Minds at Work: Organizational Intelligence in Action”, p.4, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Motivation, Leader, Boss

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• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  Neil Jordan

  Expression, People, Needs

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• Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

  Tim Ferriss

  Needs, Goes On, Information

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• I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

  Upton Sinclair

  Three, Married, Supervision

  Interview in "The New York Times", September 7, 1962.

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• We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Groups, Use

  "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations". Book by Clay Shirky, 2008.

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• The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Causes, Criteria

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Discovery, Abuse

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than Barcelona. Our entire organization is excited about the opportunity to play one of the premier teams in the world.

  Alexi Lalas

  Soccer, Team, Opportunity

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