Organization Quotes - Page 33

• God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

  Dawson Trotman

  Life Changing, Men, Picks

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• Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Running, Team

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

  Vince Lombardi

  Truth, Coaching, Criticism

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, People, Drug

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• Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Islamic

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Kids, Nfl

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Data, People

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Events, Confession

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

  Edward F. Hennessey

  Issues, Example, Management

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• The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

  Rushworth Kidder

  Choices, Climate, Ethics

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• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

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• ...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization

  Alec Douglas-Home

  War, Effort, Needs

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• I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

  Nelson Mandela

  Talking, Race, Political

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

  Arie de Geus

  Change, Focus, Community

  Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Expression, Giving

  "Cartier-Bresson's classic is back - but his Decisive Moment has passed" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2014.

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• More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Nature, Technology, Men

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

  Kingsley Amis

  Wine, Details, Peculiar

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• Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Ideas, People

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• Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

  Arthur Curley

  Political, Democracy, Important

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• We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

  Ronald Coase

  Strong, Taken, Ignorance

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• My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Father, Writing, Years

  Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

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• 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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