Organization Quotes

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. (Gerald Ford)
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. View quote
George Soros
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. View quote
Peter Jennings
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. View quote
Sun Tzu
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. View quote
Joan Baez
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. View quote
George Carlin
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes. View quote
Colin Powell
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. View quote
Colin Powell
We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. View quote
Indra Nooyi
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. (Indra Nooyi)
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. View quote
Richard Feynman
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. View quote
Aiden Wilson Tozer