Organization Quotes - Page 6

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Business, Failure

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

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• Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  Earl Weaver

  Jobs, Smart, Simple

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• It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

  Jesse Robredo

  Order, Politician, Enough

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Thoughtful, America

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Fists, Separation

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• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

  Dee Hock

  People, Business Success, Matter

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• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Environmental, Boards, Earth

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• I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Ghouls, Needs

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  House, Doing Me, Okay

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

  Moshe Katsav

  Government, World, Stability

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

  Ehud Barak

  Age, Terrorist, Palestinian

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• I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

  Nolan Ryan

  Four, Feels, Fortunate

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Aunt, Leader, Middle East

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• It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

  Charles E. Sorensen

  Wisdom, Clogging Up, Achievement

  Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams (2006). “My Forty Years with Ford”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Order, Foundation

  1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Empowering, Effort

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Greed, Selfishness, Movement

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

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• I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Fighting, Thinking, Meals

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• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Jobs, Covering, News

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• Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

  Charley Pride

  Religious, Belief

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• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Decision, Infrastructure, Terrorist

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Army, Government, Drug

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