Organization Quotes - Page 8

• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Order, Confusing, Trouble

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Aggravation, People, League

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• Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

  Linus Pauling

  Cancer, Health, People

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• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Ties, Sept 11, Terrorist

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• Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.

  Michel de Certeau

  Religious, Believe, Practice

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

  Mary Hart

  News, Stories, Tabloids

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

  Harold Geneen

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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  All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Change, Positive, Growth

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• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Order, Organized Life, Should

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Stupid People, Religion

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• Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

  James Cash Penney

  Business, Growth, Working Together

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  It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have built my organization upon fear.

  Al Capone

  Built

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• Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

  Lester Bangs

  Business, Men, Productive Life

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

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• Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Happy, Winning, Difficult Choices

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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Success, Lying, Military

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• Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Force, Organize, Organizing Things

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• Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

  Hatred, Politics, Systematic

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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Learning, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Able

  "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.

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• Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

  Kofi Annan

  Skills, Community, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.

  Arthur Tress

  Meaningful, Desire, Cameras

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• In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Class, Political

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