Organisation Quotes

• The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Business, Guarantees That, Healthy

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• Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

  Bruce Barton

  Jesus, Business, Men

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

  Ettore Messina

  Volleyball, Giving Up, People

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• One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Business, Responsibility

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• Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Country, Suffering, Troops

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• Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

  Gijs de Vries

  Europe, Community, Levels

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• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  Gavin Bryars

  Mistake, Trying, New Work

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• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

  Karl Radek

  Long, Lasts, Social

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Experts

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

  Arthur Middleton

  Church, Christ, Form

  "Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian". Book by David Novak, p. 236, January 28, 2006.

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• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, League, Groups

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• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Judgement, Initiative, Substitutes

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• Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Decision, Doe, Debt

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• If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

  Thomas Cech

  Want, Strange, Study

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

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• I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

  Cliff Richard

  Tears, Fund

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• We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  William Robertson Smith (2004). “The Prophets of Israel: and their place in history to the close of the Eighth Century B.C.”, p.20, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Block, War, Views

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• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Education, Money, Powerful

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Government, Idolatry

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry"

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• I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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• The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

  Havelock Ellis

  Husband, Home, Average

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.67, Elsevier

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• There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

  Susan George

  Suffering, Degrees, Humans

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• In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Finals, May, Debate

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour

  Kofi Annan

  Nature, Jobs, Government

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