130 Best Quotes About Organization from Famous Authors

1. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi

2. “I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” ― Neil Gaiman

3. “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A.A. Milne

4. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.” – Harold S. Geneen

7. “The point of simple living, for me has got to be:

A soft place to land, A wide margin of error , Room to breathe

Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day” ― Leo Babauta

8. “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” – Albert Einstein

9. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale

10. “Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.” – John L. Lewis 

11. “Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.” – Margaret J. Wheatley

12. “To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.” ― George Bernard Shaw

13. “The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

14. “The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.” ― Beryl Markham,

15. “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” A. A. Milne

16.  “The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.” John L. Lewis

17. “There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.” – Aaron Levie

18. “I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.” ― Nick Hornby

19. “The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.”  – Laura Ingalls Wilder

20. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.” ― William Blake 

21. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

22. “This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.”  John L. Lewis

23. “It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.” – Theodore Roosevelt

24. “I don’t think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.” – Peter Jennings

25. “I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something — like, say, organization …” ― Richelle Mead

26. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

27. “True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.” – Tom Robbins

28. “The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.” – Ken Blanchard

29. “Good order is the foundation of all things.” – Edmund Burke

30.  “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” – Napolean Hill  

31. “I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” – Wilma Mankiller

32. “The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.” – Jay Chiat

33. “Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!” – Shannon L. Alder

34. “Once you have a clear picture of your priorities – that is your values, goals and high leverage activities, organize around them.” – Stephen Covey

35. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi

36. “The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.”  – Rudolf Arnheim

37. “Collaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.”  – Clay Shirky

38. “A good system shortens the road to the goal.” – Orison Swett Marden

39. “Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” –  Brian Tracy

40. “Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.” – Marquis de Sade 

41. “The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.”  – Clay Shirky

42. “Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” – Richard P. Feynman

44. “Success is not always achieved by hard work alone, but mix it with a little bit of organization and a little strength from God above and you’ll have a winning recipe.”

45. “In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.” – Russel Honore

46. “Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user’s identity to the identity of the group.”  – Clay Shirky

47. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” – Richard P. Feynman

48. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” – Richard P. Feynman

49. “Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.” ― Clay Shirky

50. “Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.” – Marquis de Sade 

51. “A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.” ― Clay Shirky

52. Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

53. “Any system described by a power law […] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.” ― Clay Shirky

54. “I’m still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.” – Randy Moss

55. “Collaboration is not an absolute good.” ― Clay Shirky

56. “The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.” – Zig Ziglar

57. “There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.”  ― C.S. Lewis

58. “Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.” – Justin Rosenstein

59. “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.” ― Ann Dillard

60. “I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don’t get me wrong. But don’t try to put the organization above the players.” – Michael Jordan 

61. “I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”  ― Nick Hornby

62. “Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.” – Peter Drucker

63. “Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.”  ― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

64. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

65. “Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.” – W. Edwards Deming

66. “A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers – and the grassroots influencers tweeting along – can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.” – Naomi Wolf

67. “The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that’s what life is all about.” – Maria Bartiromo

68. “Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.” ― Ada Palmer

69. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” – Napoleon Hill

70. “When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”  ― Amit Kalantri  

71. “Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.” – John L. Lewis

72. “Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.” ― Eraldo Banovac

73. “I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business – I love the business.” – David Lee Roth

74. “Just reviewing this list, these to-dos and dones, her pace quickens; she feels lighter, she feels smarter, she feels in control, she feels alive.”  ― Rumaan Alam

75. “Do first what you don’t want to do most.” ― Clifford Cohen

76. “You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people – and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.” – Gary Hamel

77. “No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.” – Richard Louv

78. “Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek

79. “In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

80. “It’s not just about clearing your desk. It’s about clearing your mind…for more important things.” ― Cynthia Kyriazis 

81. “You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

82. “…you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.” ― Melissa Michaels

83. “It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.” – Thomas Huxley

84. “It’s not what you do but what you don’t do – the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish – that make you tired.” ― Donna Otto

85. “If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.” – Mary Douglas

86. “Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.” ― Asa Don Brown

87. “The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.” – Milton Friedman

88. “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.” – Dee Hock

89. “My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. ” – John McCain

90. “Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.” ― Steven Magee

91. “It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.” – William Graham Sumner

92. “The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.”  ― Israelmore Ayivor

93. “I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.” – Wilfrid Laurier

94. “Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.” ― A.D. Aliwat 

95. “Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.” – Indra Nooyi

96. “Battling busyness is a community response.” ― Kevin DeYoung

97. “I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.” – Tim Tebow

98. “Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.” – Anna Maria Chavez

99. “A large corporation is more like Australia: it’s impossible
to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things
capable of maiming or killing you.”
― Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

100. I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives. – Tayari Jones 

101. “Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny”  ― Avinash Advani

102. “If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.” –  Alan Lightman

103. “If you are a great news organization, you can’t have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.” – Carl Bernstein

104. “If you want people to parade your organization, aspire to have increase”
― Sunday Adelaja

105. The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization. – N. R. Narayana Murthy

106. “You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.” ― Ali AlJa’bari

107. “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.” – Kurt Vonnegut

108. “Organization isn’t about perfection; it’s about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.” ― Christina Scalise 

109. “If you are a great news organization, you can’t have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.” – Carl Bernstein

110. “An organization is the Devil’s work.” ― Linda Medley 

111. “The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.” – N. R. Narayana Murthy

112. “The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization.” – Joss Whedon

113. “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.” –  Kurt Vonnegut

114. “I don’t waste food, water, money, time and talent.”  ― Amit Kalantri

115. “I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses – both The Trump Organization and my own – and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.” – Ivanka Trump

116. “Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.” ― Edwin Grant Conklin

117. “To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.” – James Welch

118. “Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she’d wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn’t wanted to grant her.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón 

119. “I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day’s event to occur. Life only stands still for them.” ― Ingrid Nkenlifack

120. “Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.” – William Julius Wilson 

121. “Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.”
― Travis Polso

122. “In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.” –  Ron D. Burton

123. “If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it!”  ― Trooper

124. “After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.” – Rose Schneiderman

125. “I go through about half a dozen spiral notebooks a year. They are my friends, just like the to-do lists. They keep me organized.” ― David R. Wommack 

126. “What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” – Bertolt Brecht

127. “Successful companies are built by investing a large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.” ― Amit Kalantri

128. “What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” – Bertolt Brecht

129. “I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.” – Indra Nooyi

130. “Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.” – Bernard Arnault