Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moshe Katsav

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Blake

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

Tory Burch

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

Upton Sinclair

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

William Graham Sumner

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

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.

Gerrit Smith

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Herman Kahn

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

Herbert Spencer

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Herb Kelleher

Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding

Jerry Falwell

The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

Jerry Falwell

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

Jerry Falwell

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.

James C. Collins

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.