Organization Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• Organization is the Devil's work.

  Linda Medley

  Devil, Organized

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• Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Graduation, Team, Memorable

  Michael Dell's commencement address to University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Home, Boys

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• The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

  Jan Carlzon

  Perception, Stories, Moral Of The Story

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• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  Irwin Redlener

  Country, Community, Charity

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• A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization

  Marty Neumeier

  Feelings, Guts, Brands

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• This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Spiritual, Religious, Hate

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• An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

  Aldrich Ames

  Reliability, Information, Machinery

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• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Struggle, Self

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• It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

  Dee Hock

  Leader, Hierarchy, Able

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• The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

  B. Traven

  Important, Earth, Firsts

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• No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, Guarantees, Profit

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• Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

  Radhanath Swami

  Philosophical, Men, Understanding

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

  Ben Horowitz

  Needs, Clarity, Sometimes

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• Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Successful, People, Roles

  Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998). “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First”, p.16, Harvard Business Press

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• What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Effort, Missing, Groups

  Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.

  Mancur Olson

  Emotional, Groups, Might

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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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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