Organization Quotes - Page 6

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Business, Failure

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

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• High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Country, Understanding, Information

  "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Lap, Stories

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Thoughtful, America

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

  Jesse Robredo

  Order, Politician, Enough

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Fists, Separation

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• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

  Dee Hock

  People, Business Success, Matter

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Order, Foundation

  1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Greed, Political

  Milton Friedman (1968). “Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Kindness, Government, Doe

  "High on Foggy Bottom: An Outsider's Inside View of the Government". Book by Charles Frankel, 1969.

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• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Lying, Appreciate

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  Jan Schakowsky

  June, Proud, Ongoing

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• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Environmental, Boards, Earth

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• I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

  Jim Clyburn

  Community, Important, Growing

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• We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  House, Doing Me, Okay

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

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Empowering, Effort

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• If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

  Ehud Barak

  Age, Terrorist, Palestinian

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Greed, Selfishness, Movement

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

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Aunt, Leader, Middle East

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• I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Fighting, Thinking, Meals

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• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Jobs, Covering, News

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• Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

  Charley Pride

  Religious, Belief

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