Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Gillard

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

Julia Child

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

Nicholas Negroponte

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Hyman Rickover

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

Hyman Rickover

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

Harry S Truman

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

Ja Rule

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

J. William Fulbright

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

Paul Farmer

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Mary Hart

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Patrick J. Kennedy

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

Joseph Sobran

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Brodsky

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

Poul Anderson

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Noam Chomsky

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Noam Chomsky

People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.

Gerald R. Ford

I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Haile Selassie

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Graham Roberts

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't,

Jim Brown

The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created,

Jim Butcher

You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

Murray Rothbard

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

Millicent Fenwick

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

Milton Friedman

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

Mukesh Ambani

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

Julian Assange

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

Julian Assange

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

Ken Blanchard

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

Khloe Kardashian

I am an organization freak!

Margaret Chan

When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.