Quotes About Organization

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

The average Americans day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charless dart board.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Creo que todos, los que estamos aquí y los que están en tantas otras partes, vivimos un desajuste. Unos más, otros menos, hacemos el esfuerzo por organizarnos, por empezar de nuevo, por poner un poco de orden en nuestros sentimientos, en nuestras relaciones, en nuestras nostalgias. Pero no bien nos descuidamos, reaparece el caos. Y cada recaída en el caos (perdoná la redundancia) es más caótica.

If we don't control our calendar, our calendar will end up controlling us.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

I define random trading as poorly-planned trades or trades that are not planned at all. It is an unorganized approach that takes into consideration an unlimited set of market variables, which do not allow you to find out what works on a consistent basis and what does not.

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

The problem that this amount of random activity causes is that it's not just what gets done that is random – what doesn't get done is random too. This means that whether something gets done or not is as much a matter of chance as of rational decision.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #9: TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES, AND THE HOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

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Changing any organization for the benefit of the customer is difficult and often lonely work.

the organization is shaped by the expectations of others when those others have particular images of the organization.

Whenever there is chaos and disorganization," Saks observed, "that is the time to make money.

It was an organization of obstacles and precautions—based at bottom on a profound suspicion of human nature."11 Furthermore,

Milton Berle and Bob Hope each had a vault containing more than six million jokes on index cards sorted by topic. The

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together.

I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.