Quotes About Organization

You really need to be on top of what you own, and you've got to be on top of your record-keeping. Imagine one day if a major bank is taken down and the records are gone.

If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.

I could never be grateful enough to the Doobies for the opportunities the organization gave me over the years.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I think that's the most exciting thing, writing my own journey, my story with an organization that truly believes in me the same way I believe in them.

If sufficiently developed and organized, public sentiment, as manifested in Congress, can prevail over presidential intransigence. Lincoln

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

It's a reminder that what is inevitable may also be spiritually unendurable, that what is justifiable may be atrocious . . . that, like our Mad Mother Nature, our Mad Father Society is an organization of deaths as well as of lives . . .

his new place would have to be clean and orderly, to signify self-mastery.

Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

a manager inhabits the most interpersonally complex role in a modern organization, in many ways more complex than the CEO role.

sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that those PETA people have stood up for the values we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves.

Your books are arranged by the color of their spines, she said. How stupid.

But in capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not that kind of competition which counts but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization (the largest-scale unit of control for instance)—competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives.

An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

the most evident distinguishing sign is man's organization of his life according primarily to mythic, and only secondarily economic, aims and laws. Food and drink, reproduction and nest-building, it is true, play formidable roles in the lives no less of men than of chimpanzees. But what of the economics of the Pyramids, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Hindus starving to death with edible cattle strolling all around them, or the history of Israel, from the time of Saul to right now?

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

There were always sides to one committee—those who planned, those who planned and executed, and those who talked—that is, complained.

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.