Quotes About Organization

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don't behave too badly.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

En medio del ruido, la suciedad, los humos y el riesgo de accidentes, me parecían personas muy sensibles, de una humanidad innata y con una maravillosa capacidad de organización y de percepción de la realidad inmediata. Siempre me hicieron sentir bienvenido y cómodo [...] mi estancia en las fábricas fue una de las experiencias más significativas de mi vida.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

We got there in stages because, while you can force anything down the throat of an organization, if people don't buy into the logic, the change won't stick.

Loving and approving of yourself, creating a space of safety, trusting and deserving and accepting, will create organization in your mind, create more loving relationships in your life, attract a new job and a new and better place to live, and even enable your body weight to normalize.

The mess in the drawers was in contrast to the neat desktop. Many people's lives were like that. The neat room and the messy closet. The well-ordered counters and the chaos in the cabinets.

She consulted the yellowing Rolodex in her head.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

Music, as you know, is an incredibly complex process, including conceiving, writing, studying, organizing, listening. The fabric of music has its roots everywhere. That's why it is so beautiful.

The best person to get something done is a busy person

the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime's supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,

the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore

They did not suffer shipwreck because the entrepreneurs were not public-spirited, as the socialist-etatistic legend has it. They were bound to fail because the economic organization based upon division of labour and private property in the means of production can function only so long as price-determination in the market is free.

Every sort of economic organization needs not only a mechanism for production but also a mechanism for distributing what is produced.

Say what you will about the Mafia, but it works because everyone has a specific role to play. They all do what they do for the greater good of the organization. They'd willingly die for each other. The other reason a wolf pack is like the Mafia? Because, for both groups, there is nothing more important than family.

Home is the place where you know where the silverware lives, where the cups hide, where the clean plates go.

Chaos is nothing but an infinite number of ordered things.