Quotes About Organization

I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

I take a four-pin extension lead, so I can jack one plug in the wall, and I've got four plugs there for me. With all our phones and different gadgets, I think everyone should carry one. It's become a crucial part of my travel kit.

I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards - where half of us are academics and half of us are from Wall Street - that there's no CEO who understands at all a derivative. All they know is that somebody tells them in their organization, 'We've got a wonderful profit center.'

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.

I usually carry my wallet, phone, Chapstick, and a snack at all times.

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.

We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it's discussed at every board meeting continually.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

As soon as my clothes come back from the laundry I hang them up on the left-hand side of the wardrobe and take clothes to wear from the right, so they're constantly rotating.

I'm crazily organised with my wardrobe. Everything is hung in categories: dresses, jackets, shirts, skirts and trousers are all hung in order, and they're then hung in colour order, too, so that when I'm looking for something I know exactly where it is.

I really like the idea of being utilitarian. My dream is to edit down my wardrobe and be very Japanese, where you have one rolling rack and it's like your four T-shirts, your five dresses, your two pairs of jeans.

If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring.

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me.

I used to pack a giant bag to check with every possible outfit I could think of, but now I have slimmed down my travel wardrobe.

I've started making my wardrobe a uniform: I find that the fewer options I have, the better my state of mind.