Great Organizations Quotes:

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

- Lou Holtz

source: "Sports names and faces: Jordan Spieth, Lou Holtz". www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2015.

topic: Organization, Espn, Great Organizations

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

- Bill Gates

topic: Great Organizations

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

- James C. Collins

topic: Leadership, Organization, Creative, Good Organization, Great Organizations

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

topic: Leadership, Heart, Organization, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

- John Wooden

topic: Leadership, Organization, Joy, Great Organizations

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

- Simon Sinek

source: Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.48, Penguin

topic: Leadership, Thinking, Organization, Great Organizations

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

- Marcus Buckingham

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Organization, Stronger, Culture, Getting Stronger, Great Managers

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Organization, Doe, World, Great Organizations

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

- Walt Disney

topic: Organization, People, Realizing, Disneyland, Get Rich Quick

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

- Mary Douglas

topic: Organization, Phases, Great Organizations

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

- Peter Senge

topic: Believe, Greatness, Organization, Great Person, Great Organizations

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

topic: Organization, Political, Majority, Great Organizations

I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

- James C. Collins

topic: Powerful, Organization, People, Great Organizations

I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

- Kris Dunn

topic: Air, Organization, Smell, Solicitation, Great Organizations

I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

- Mark Teixeira

topic: Sports, New York, Cake, Special To Me, Great Organizations

There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

- Zoe Lister-Jones

source: "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

topic: Country, Fighting, Names, Food Safety, Great Organizations

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

- Kurt Busch

topic: Organization, Leaving, Easy, Great Organizations

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

- George P. Shultz

topic: Country, Organization, People, World Affairs, Great Organizations

If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization.

- Nomar Garciaparra

topic: Cities, Organization, Red, Great Organizations

This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

- Ilya Kovalchuk

topic: Home, Past, Russia, Back Home, Great Organizations

The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

- Ilya Kovalchuk

topic: Organization, Devil, Fans, Great Organizations, New Jersey

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

- James C. Collins

topic: Leadership, Organization, Decision, Great Organizations, Unanimity

I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

- John Starks

topic: Nice, Utah, Cities, Great Organizations

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

- Dikembe Mutombo

topic: Nba, Organization, Ambassadors, Commissioners, Great Organizations

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

- Melissa Rosenberg

source: "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

topic: Girl, School, Writing, Inner City, Inner City Schools

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

- Don Nickles

topic: Thinking, Organization, Leader, Great Organizations