Organization Quotes - Page 40

• Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

  Russell Kirk

  Perfect, Mind, Awful

  Russell Kirk (1963). “Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career”

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• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Names, Done

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

  Errico Malatesta

  Boss, Enemy, Anarchy

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.45, PM Press

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• This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Strong, Thinking, Tasks

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• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

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• I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Clothes, World

  "Bill Gates interview: I have no use for money. This is God’s work". Interview with Neil Tweedie, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  Bill Gates

  Looks, News, Share

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

  Larry Page

  Stupid, Focus, Missing

  "Computing is still too clunky: Charlie Rose and Larry Page in conversation". Interview with Charlie Rose, blog.ted.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  Larry Page

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sex, Support, Survivor

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?

  Gilles Deleuze

  War, Thinking, Gambling

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (1987). “Dialogues”, Burns & Oates

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• I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Growing Up, Hero, Player

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• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Philosophy, Political, Individuality

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

  Alan Keyes

  Leader, Movement, Lines

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Equality, Example, Detours

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.

  Linda Gordon

  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Book, People, Empathy

  Speech to his staff before the broadcast of the "See It Now" program on Joe McCarthy on March 09, 1954. "Edward R. Murrow And the Time Of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.silurians.org.

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• The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy.

  Gerry McGovern

  Heart, Simplicity, Use

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• In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

  John Sculley

  Ideas, People, Listening

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• Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Humanitarian, Hamas

  "Does Washington have a lack of understanding of radical Islam?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2014.

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• A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

  Henry Ford

  Bigs, Interest, Big Business

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• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

  Responsibility, Important, Collaboration

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• Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

  Edgar Schein

  Fashion, Taken, Self

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, People, Leader

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, People, Desire

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.12, Random House

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