Organization Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

  Ja Rule

  Hot, Dollars, Company

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Political, Thieves, Politics

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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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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• 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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• 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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• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

  Stefan Zweig

  Peace, War, Talking

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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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• 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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• In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

  William R. Looney III

  Military, Book, Leader

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Peaceful, Use, Weapons

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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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