Great Organizations Quotes

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Commitment

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• Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Motivation, Organization

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
  imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Heart, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Organization, Joy

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.22, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Thinking, Organization

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.48, Penguin

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• All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, Stronger, Culture

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Commitment, Organization

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• All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Doe, World

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• When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

  Walt Disney

  Organization, People, Realizing

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• Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

  Mary Douglas

  Organization, Phases

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• I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Greatness, Organization

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• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Organization, Political, Majority

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

  James C. Collins

  Powerful, Organization, People

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• ESPN is a great organization to work for.

  Lou Holtz

  Organization, Espn

  "Sports names and faces: Jordan Spieth, Lou Holtz". www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2015.

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• I've always hated the big United Way drive at work.  Not because of the United Way.  Great organization.  Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

  Kris Dunn

  Air, Organization, Smell

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• I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

  Mark Teixeira

  Sports, New York, Cake

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• There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Country, Fighting, Names

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

  Kurt Busch

  Organization, Leaving, Easy

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• World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

  George P. Shultz

  Country, Organization, People

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• If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Cities, Organization, Fans

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• This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Home, Past, Russia

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• The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Organization, Devil, Fans

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• I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Organization, Decision

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