Organization Quotes

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

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

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

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

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

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.

People join organizations, they leave managers.

New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"!

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.

My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.