77 Great Organizations Quotes
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Famous Great Organizations Quotes
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. — Theodore Levitt
Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving. — Geoffrey Canada
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box. — Barbara Corcoran
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders. — Frances Hesselbein
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. — T. L. Scrutton
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. — Guy Kawasaki
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit. — Don Meyer
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. — Dee Hock
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health. — Patrick Lencioni
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. — Vince Lombardi
Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard. — Mahathir Mohamad
Short Great Organizations Quotes
- Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. — Peter Drucker
- There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best. — Chamath Palihapitiya
- Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. — James C. Collins
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Oswald Spengler
- Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources — Henry Mintzberg
- Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover
- A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose
Successful Organizations Quotes
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success. — Adam Grant
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors. — Patrick Lencioni
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren G. Bennis
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. — Eduard Bernstein
The best way to keep a ship – or any organization – on course for success is to give the troops all the responsibility they can handle and then stand back. — Michael Abrashoff
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. — Mel Carnahan
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More Great Organizations Quotes
There is no exercise that can take the place of walking. by it the circulation of the blood is greatly improved. Walking, in all cases where it is possible, is the best remedy for the diseased bodies, because in this, all of the organs of the body are brought into use. — Ellen G. White
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. — Colin Powell
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. — Christopher Hitchens
Programming productivity is a precious and fragile thing stemming from great focus. Maintaining it requires active protection from the individual and organization. — Greg Brockman
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. — Paul Valery
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. — Paul D. Boyer
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. — Norman Cousins
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels — Anson Dorrance
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals — William Graham Sumner
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it. — Dallas Willard
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. — Elbert Hubbard
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah. — John Starks
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder. — Christopher Hitchens
The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers. — Matt Taibbi
Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks. — Dave Kerpen
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power. — Dallas Willard
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial. — Roy Lichtenstein
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. — J. K. Rowling
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. — Eric Kandel
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold. — Mary Elizabeth Lease
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert. — Lysander Spooner
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness. — James C. Collins
Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them. — Zinedine Zidane
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi
There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures. — Alycia Debnam Carey
I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. — Jacques Pepin
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things. — Bill Gates
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you. — James C. Collins
The Spurs are a great organization. — Kawhi Leonard
The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms. — Jonathon Porritt
The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner. — Boris Spassky
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. — Bill Gates
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. — Lewis Thomas
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy. — Dolores Huerta
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. — Jim C. Walton
Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic. — Simon Sinek
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. — Hillary Clinton
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence. — Abe Fortas
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. — Oliver Sacks
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting. — Walter Lippmann
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