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“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.”

Thinking Company Pride Organization Critical Driving Boat Owners Ownership Business Owners

Author:Aaron Levie

“I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.”

People Thinking America Choices Stuff Voice Technology Changed Serious Healthy Organization Good People

Author:Brian Lamb

“Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.”

Thinking Way States Form Certain Organization Function Interpretation Way Of Thinking Militarism Armament

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Helping Differences Growing Up Growing Organization Institutions Educational Making A Difference Scholarship Educational Institutions

Author:David Rubenstein

“You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.”

People Thinking Knows Important Bigs Forget Position Deserve Organization Tied Tied Up

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Bigs Organization Right Thing Bureaucracy

Author:Chris Terrio

“I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.”

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Author:Ratan Tata

“I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Religious Activity Worship Organization Good Work Doing Good Congregation Proselytizing

Author:Jim Wallis

“What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.”

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Author:Ken Buck

“I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.”

Thinking Use Would Be Purpose Party Resources Organization Currents Officials Contradiction Appropriate Platforms Reverse Legislation Behalf Website

Author:Terry McAuliffe

“I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.”

Thinking Faces Challenges Majors Organization Terror Conformity Stereotype Attacking Incidents Iconic Landmarks

Author:Bruce Hoffman

“I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.”

Thinking Way Mean Said Reason Guy Organization Suicide Fruit Blow Planes Pairs Als Lunatic Al Qaeda Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:David Letterman

“In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Important Action Difficult Possibility Ought Sitting Organization Discussion Not Sure Fence One Direction Which Way To Go

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”

“I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”

People Thinking World Poor Organization Trade International Fund Poor People Monetary World Trade World Bank World Trade Organization

Author:Bob Geldof

“I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.”

Thinking Answers Organization Lifetime Elders Oracles

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.”

“I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“I'm sure there are people who consider themselves Democrats, maybe even liberals, who are good Christians, but if so I do not think they understand the tenants of those two organizations.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Christian Organization Democrat Good Christian Tenants

Author:Ann Coulter

“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?”

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Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.”

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Author:Pete Carroll

“Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.”

“I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation to treat everyone differently. Because people aren't all the same, and the last thing you ever want to do, in my opinion, is let the best in your organization be treated like the worst in your organization. It does nothing for your future.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.”

People Thinking Knows Shows Political Opportunity Internet Organization Volunteer Highlights Donation

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.”

People Thinking Groups Organization Envy Faster Peers Get Over Competitors Thinking About You

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.”

Thinking Fans Organization Uniforms Yankees Yankee Fans

Author:Joe Torre

“I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.”

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Author:Steve Kerr

“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.”

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Author:Mike Conley, Jr.

“To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.”

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Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.”

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Author:Mark McKinnon

“... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.”

Ifs Thinking Way Succeed Projects Approach Organization Outsiders Fabulous Reception

Author:Seth Godin

“I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.”

Thinking Running Used Leadership Organization Jazz Orchestra Symphony Improvisation Conducting Definition Of Leadership Future Leaders Symphony Orchestras Participative Leadership

Book:Managing People is Like Herding Cats

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.”

Ifs Thinking Men Bigs Courses Cases Reflection Organization Management Exceptional Avoided

Book:Adventures of a White-Collar Man

Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man

“If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Modern Information Tools Organization

Author:Ricardo Semler

“It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Said Two School Turns Realizing Community Creative Keys Training Resources Organization Release One Way Locks Be Creative Our Community

Author:Ken Robinson

“One thing that is wrongly hyped is social media For many media organizations, they think it of it as distribution, and yes it's good for that. What's missing is the power of social media for engagement with the audience and for newsgathering.”

Thinking Social Audience One Thing Media Missing Organization Social Media Engagement Distribution

Author:Vivian Schiller

“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.”

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Author:Ari Fleischer

“I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.”

Thinking Way Kind War Young Opportunity Careers Terrible Conflict Organization Reporters Covering

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.”

Thinking Today Purpose Ability Organization Structure Critical Employee Productive Capability Morphology

Author:Dave Ulrich

“The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.”

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Author:Joel Bakan

“I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.”

Thinking Way Politician Organization Not Sure Being The Best Right Way Grassroots

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think he was so passionate about this team and loved every single player and the organization.”

Thinking Years Lasts Passion Player Team Organization Passionate Last Year Championship Galaxy Fitting Retrospect

Author:Steve Sampson

“Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.”

Thinking Problem Christian Leadership Organization Profit Non Profit

Author:Jeff Henderson

“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Mean Persons Country Care Pay Blood Organization Don't Care Mess I Don't Care Damn Loyal

Book:Our man in Havana

Source: Our man in Havana

“And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.”

Thinking Trying Might Form Artist Natural Position Shapes Organization Cameras Photographer Forests Traditional Rhythm Visuals Steel Aluminum

Author:John Sexton

“...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.”

Thinking Purpose Business Existence Company Issues Higher Ultimate Organization Entrepreneur Profit Strategic Noble Causes

Author:Ray Anderson

“Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.”

Thinking Please Organization Dry Going Away Listeners Dry Up

Author:Bob Edwards

“We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

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