Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Robbins

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Tom DeMarco

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Stephen Covey

True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

Vaclav Havel

Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

Solomon Ortiz

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Solomon Ortiz

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

Stefan Zweig

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

Tim Brown

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

Thomas J. Watson

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

Richard Louv

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Ricardo Semler

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Robert D. Kaplan

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Robert Caro

I trained myself to be organized,

Robert Reich

Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.

Robert Mueller

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

Rob Zombie

I like being organized and super particular.

Richard Holbrooke

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

Richelle Mead

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...

Umberto Eco

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

Rick Warren

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

Steve Young

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We've got to take an affirmative stance about it.

Steve Yzerman

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Sam Altman

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

Walt Disney

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.

Saul Alinsky

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

Rod Paige

The NEA is a terrorist organization.

Robert Townsend

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

Warren Buffett

All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

Vladimir Lenin

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.