Welcome to our collection of insightful organization quotes! Organizing one’s life, work, or surroundings is an essential skill that impacts productivity, efficiency, and overall well-being. From tidying up physical spaces to structuring thoughts and schedules, the art of organization plays a pivotal role in achieving success and maintaining harmony.
Throughout history, great minds from various walks of life have shared their wisdom on the importance of organization. Whether it’s business leaders, philosophers, or productivity experts, their words offer valuable insights into the power of order and structure. These quotes serve as reminders of the significance of organization in our daily lives, inspiring us to cultivate habits that foster clarity, focus, and productivity.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of organization quotes to spark motivation, encourage reflection, and guide you on your journey towards a more organized and efficient life. Feel free to copy them, pair them with captivating imagery, or unleash your creativity by enhancing them with stylish fonts. Let these quotes serve as beacons of inspiration as you embark on your quest for greater organization and success.
When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage. Simon Sinek
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don’t improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. Indra Nooyi
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. Arthur Helps
Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what’s unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization. Kumar Mangalam Birla
We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism. Fred Hampton
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. Mukesh Ambani
I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester’s Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart’s Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster. Kenny Baker
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. Alan Moore
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed. Colin Powell
It’s one thing to be a part of an organization. It’s another thing to be a part of the community. Travis Kelce
The trust and the respect that the whole Rams organization has had for me since they traded for me has meant a lot so I would just like to thank them, the whole organization from top to bottom. Jalen Ramsey
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
A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered. Gunter Blobel
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
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. Steve Jobs
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization. L. Ron Hubbard
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. James Cash Penney
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. George Carlin
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams
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
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. Kawhi Leonard
The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization. Joss Whedon
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas. Marianne Williamson
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. Huey Newton
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. Rudolf Steiner
If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself. George Bernard Shaw
We decided to significantly change the nature of the services we are providing to our clients by creating, really, a digital-first company, and digital first in two main directions: first, being the leader in providing digital services to our clients and second, making Accenture the most digitalized organization. Pierre Nanterme
I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member. Groucho Marx
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself. W. Edwards Deming
Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract’s wording. Stanley A. McChrystal
Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them. Oliver Tambo
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
I’ve been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I’ve tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family. Margaret Hamburg
You don’t need a title. You don’t need a degree in business organization or be trained in the finer arts of persuasion. You just need to believe you can lead. So start there. Start believing. Julie Foudy
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. David Brock
When you come in as a new leader, it’s really important that people do get to know you and that you are constantly communicating. That’s really hard in a big organization. Julie Sweet
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! Douglas MacArthur
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. E. O. Wilson
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
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. Peter Drucker
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Donald Rumsfeld
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vince Lombardi
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that’s what life is all about. Maria Bartiromo
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. Stephen Covey
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Patrick Lencioni
If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power. And the Internet provides the best and most appropriate infrastructure for strengthening all three. Zeynep Tufekci
What happened in the past can help you know what’s going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization. Safra A. Catz
It takes getting the right talent. It takes a lot of patience. It takes investment and passion and commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, and everyone in the organization must buy into that. David Steward
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. Colin Powell
I’m not into animal rights. I’m only into animal welfare and health. I’ve been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the ’70s. We’re a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I’ve worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes! Betty White
When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth. Patrick Lencioni
The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they’re working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. Rick Pitino
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. Nelson Mandela
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle… It wouldn’t be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. Chesty Puller
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world. Christy Turlington
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. John Wooden
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. Mary Douglas
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. Dennis Prager
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
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful. James Welch
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged. Criss Angel
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it’s safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters. Adam Grant
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’ Spike Milligan
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
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. Lou Holtz
The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel. Ehud Olmert
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. Saul Alinsky
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. Harold S. Geneen
It’s about communication. It’s about honesty. It’s about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don’t try to give them half the story. You don’t try to hide the story. You treat them as – as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. Leland Stanford
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it’s a private club basically. It’s like a private golf club and they decide who they’re going to let in the club. Micky Dolenz
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. John C. Maxwell
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
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. Stokely Carmichael
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. Phil Crosby
We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody. J. Edgar Hoover
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Peter Drucker
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. Tim Berners-Lee
Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. Lawrence Wright
I didn’t know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization. Mike Trout
The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand. Michael Gerber
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. Rush Limbaugh
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. Harold S. Geneen
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. Ross Perot
Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward. Abigail Johnson
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries. H. G. Wells
The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. Andy Stanley
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald R. Ford
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have always believed that technology should do the hard work – discovery, organization, communication – so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly. Larry Page
I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. Clint Eastwood
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. Dee Hock
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
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. Mark Zuckerberg
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
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