Organization Quotes - Page 3

• Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

  Colin Powell

  Titles, Fancy, Next

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

  Norman Borlaug

  War, Team, Humble

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• Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Fabric, Environment

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• Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

  Mary Douglas

  Phases, Great Organizations

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• I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Wings, Looks

  "Jennings: Criticism 'goes with the territory'". Interview with Peter Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 9, 2003.

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• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

  John L. Lewis

  Agony, America, Agonizing

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

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Distance, Layers, Management

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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• 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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Soul, Conformity, Communism

  "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Knights, World

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• 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.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Attention, Trouble, Little House On The Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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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, Differences

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

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• My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

  John McCain

  Real, Greatest Fear, Giving

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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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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• The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Political, Unions

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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• I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

  Gerrit Smith

  Slavery, Anti Slavery

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• The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Goal

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• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Oregon

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• 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.

  George Soros

  Powerful, Quagmire, Investing

  "Why I Have Campaigned Across America to Put John Kerry in the White House". Speech at the National Press Club, www.independent.co.uk. November 02, 2004.

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• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Political, Advice

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• This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Heaven, Politics, Hell

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• The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ideas, Unity, Brain

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• Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

  Chuck Zito

  Drug, Individual, Selling

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• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Zach Wamp

  Believe, Matter, Facts

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• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Responsibility, Different, News

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Long, Giving

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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