Quotes About Organization

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

What you manage in business is people

I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.