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Quotes About Organization

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
~ Milton Friedman
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?
~ Anonymous
The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail, and two years later, it feels it in its head.
~ Frederick Kappel
The ideal committee is one with me as chairman, and two other members in bed with flu.
~ Lord Milverton
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
~ Lee lacocca
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
~ John L. Beckley
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
~ Annie Dillard
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
~ Chinese proverb
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
~ V. S. Pritchett
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.
~ Mark Twain
Sunday is the day I do my laundry and clean. I'm always trying to get rid of stuff. Truthfully? I have a housekeeper that comes once a month, and I tend not to make things too messy for her. But I do have clothes everywhere.
~ Angela Yee
One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance between expressing human empathy and yet not passively sweeping hard truths under the rug.
~ Ben Sasse
The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
~ Mary Berry
It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
~ Taylour Paige
I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
~ Leandra Medine
I'm all for CM Punk becoming a part of the organization. I think his background and training in martial arts, he should be capable of handling himself and doing well. And bottom line is, people are going to tune in to watch and that's pretty much the bar of getting into the UFC, if you can sell tickets.
~ Frank Mir
And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.
~ Bulent Ecevit
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
~ Billy Collins
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.
~ Marian McPartland
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.
~ Peter Drucker