Quotes About Organization

By the time you reach your mid-30s, your brain has organized itself into a very finite signature of automatic programs—and that fixed pattern is called your identity. Think

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

If I die in a plane crash remember to always bag and board your comics.

I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters-height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author's nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them. Then I put them back the way they were.

The Jews of Europe had been foolish to entrust their safety and security to anyone but themselves. What if they had been organized? What if they had been armed and trained and immobilized? No one could have sent them to concentration camps to perish by the hundreds of thousands.

No matter how much crap a man has," she told him when she visited his office, "he will fill every available inch of open space. Put him in a smaller office with just as much stuff, and the stuff shrinks to fit. Add a hundred square feet and his stuff will spread over it like a rising

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

Croma staff officers, it seemed, liked to make things unnecessarily complicated just as human ones did.

I've grown to think that keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective.

They found that 13 percent of people say they are "engaged" in their jobs—which means they are "enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and contribute to their organization in a positive manner.

If there isn't a group doing what you believe needs to be done, set it up and email me at [email protected], and I'll add it to the book's website and to future editions of this book.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

I always know where the scissors are.

When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.