Quotes About Organization

Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.