Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Linda Lingle

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Lee R. Raymond

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

John Maeda

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

John L. Lewis

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.

Justin Rosenstein

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

Leland Stanford

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

Lawrence Wright

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Joyce Banda

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Joshua Reynolds

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Karl Albrecht

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Karl Albrecht

We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

Judy Woodruff

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

John Buchan

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

M. Scott Peck

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

Meg Whitman

A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

Max Weber

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

Max de Pree

Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.

Mats Sundin

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

Julia Gillard

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

Julia Child

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Gerald R. Ford

I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Patrick J. Kennedy

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

Joseph Sobran

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Brodsky

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

Leon Jouhaux

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Poul Anderson

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.