Quotes About Organization

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.

If you peek behind the curtain at any type of company, you'll see that things are far less organized than you'd expect.

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda.

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.

I thought I'd never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I'd one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world.

I lose pens a lot, so I don't use fancy ones.

There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Better remain jobless than work with a private organization that gives stress and furthermore humiliates its employees.

Better to remain jobless than work for the ruthless private organization that only does exploitation, humiliation of its employees and gives them pressure and stress

Bigger the slave, higher the growth that employee can have and longer the tenure he spends there in the organization.