Quotes About Organization

Clutter is the enemy of clarity.

His entire life was probably sorted into neat little columns.

Successful organizing forces you to look at the big picture, not one small section of the frame, so that the system you design will be complete.

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.

If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.

I never pick up the phone unless I know who it is and I'm scheduled to talk to that person at that time.

Take control. Tell everyone what's going to happen and stick to the plan, whatever it is.

Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.

When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.

Cleaning up" consisted of each child contributing one Lego to the box, then dropping to the floor in exhaustion. The other 3,998 were mine to deal with.

He had always said there was nothing that a list couldn't solve. Conquer the details and you conquer the problem.

climbed the stairs to Pepper's bedroom. As usual, the place looked like a bomb had gone off inside. Clothes covered the floor. Books were splayed page-down (" A sin," their mother said).

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Marx himself makes it clear that he does not start from a basic concept – value – but from an elementary material phenomenon – the commodity – which is at the basis of capitalism, as the only economic organization based upon generalized commodity production.

Capital Marx's fundamental aim was to lay bare the laws of motion which govern the origins, the rise, the development, the decline and the disappearance of a given social form of economic organization: the capitalist mode of production. He was not seeking universal laws of economic organization. Indeed, one of the essential theses of Capital is that no such laws exist. For Marx, there are no economic laws valid for each and every basically different form of society

This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.