Business Organization Quotes:

In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

- Larry Burkett

source: Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Organization, Alternatives, Business Organization

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Individual Power, Individual Work

...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.

- Larry Burkett

source: Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Smart, Successful, Organization, Business Organization

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

source: "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Inspiring Business

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Inspirational, Business, Creativity, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

- B. C. Forbes

source: "Keys to Success".

topic: Confidence, Men, Organization, Business Organization

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

- Tony Hsieh

source: Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.124, Hachette UK

topic: Character, Destiny, Organization, Delivering, Core Values

Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Success, Buddhism, Winning, Playing Fields, Business Organization

Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

- Constantinos C. Markides

topic: Happy, Winning, Organization, Difficult Choices, Business Organization

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.

- Richard M. Weaver

topic: Men, Odds, Organization, Daily Experience, Business Organization

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Children, Father, Opportunity, Business Organization

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

- Don Tapscott

source: "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

topic: Country, Air, Organization, Shareholders, Stakeholder