Quotes About Organization

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I'd like to thank the committee that brought this event about. It was an equal endeavor. They did the food, decorations, and reservations, and I did the traffic flow.

Paperwork could kill.

Eve yanked out her communicator. "Peabody, get an E and B team to the Empire State Building, another to the Twin Towers, one more to the Statue of Liberty. You and McNab cover the Empire State, get Feeney down to the Towers.

The guy was cracking down on the Brotherhood, organizing shifts, trying to turn four loose cannons like V, Phury, Rhage, and Z into soldiers. No wonder he always looked like his head hurt.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

After raising twins, you get organized.

I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

I am definitely a keep-it-clean type of person when it comes to e-mail. My 'important' folder on the Gmail app is constantly clean. When a new e-mail comes in to my important folder, I immediately look at it and determine what action item comes with it. The action item may not get done until later, but at least I know it's coming.