#Organization Quotes

“People seem sheathed in their tough organization.”

“Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.”

“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.”

“It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.”

“Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.”

“Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.”

“The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.”

“Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.”

“The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.”

“My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.”

“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”

“I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

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

“Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.”

“To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.”

“It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.”

“I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.”

“A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house”

“You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.”

“Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.”

“The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.”

“In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.”

“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.”

“I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.”

“People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.”

“Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.”

“To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent”

“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”

“Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.”

“What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?”

“Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.”

“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.”

“The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.”

“The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.”

“Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.”

“Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.”

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

“The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.”

“Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.”

“There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.”

“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”

“Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.”

“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”

“The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.”

“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”

“A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."”

“An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.”

“If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking. Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.”

“Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.”