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Quotes About Organization

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
~ Edward T. Hall
Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
~ Arie de Geus
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
~ Ray Dalio
I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.
~ Steven Pressfield
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
~ Richard Feynman
A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.
~ Gunter Blobel
Don't put the cart before the horse.
~ John Heywood
You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
~ Brian Tracy
In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.
~ Annette Lu
Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
~ Marvin Bower
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
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
~ William H. Gass
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
~ Karl Marx
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
~ Henry George
The real beauty of life is in orderliness.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.
~ L.R.W. Lee
Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.
~ Andy Harglesis
Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?
~ Anthony T. Hincks
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées