The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success. — Adam Grant
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. — Peter Drucker
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. — Peter Drucker
Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable. — Quint Studer
There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company. — Nathan Shedroff
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
Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications. — Eric Yuan
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. — Mary Douglas
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses. — Aime Cesaire
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. — Morrie Schwartz
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. — Robert L. Peters
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Your culture sets your expectation for what is 'normal.' — James Clear
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. — Satya Nadella
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust. — Yo-Yo Ma
Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. — Phil Crosby
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
You have to be interested in culture to design for it. — Lorraine Wild
Evidence shows that in learning cultures, organizations innovate more and make fewer mistakes. — Adam Grant
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us. — James Clear
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
What Is Culture Quotes
Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East. — Milo Yiannopoulos
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved. — Jean Vanier
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. — Jerry Garcia
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. — Milton H. Erickson
I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America. — David Duke
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. — Noam Chomsky
Western culture is what keeps women and gays safe. — Milo Yiannopoulos
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from. — Romare Bearden
Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same. — Geert Wilders
I think we’re not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments. — Grace Lee Boggs
Corporate Culture Quotes
I think culture is a big word for corporate character. — Jensen Huang
Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative. — Lee Kun-hee
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy) — Desmond Tutu
It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it. — Gordon Bethune
... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language. — Frances Hesselbein
Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started. — Quint Studer
People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting. — Greta Van Susteren
The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial. — Brian Chesky
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation. — John Seely Brown
If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture. — Milo Yiannopoulos
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. — Pierre Bourdieu
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks
It gives people working at the group a feeling that they don’t exist only for cash flow, but for something bigger. — Bernard Arnault
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations. — Kofi Annan
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. — Edward Sapir
Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music. — Gerald R. Ford
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year. — Bernie Sanders
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. — Grace Hartigan
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. — Susan Cain
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen. — John Kao
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? — Simon Sinek
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. — Jack Welch
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality. — Richard Branson
Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company. — Tony Hsieh
There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture. — Kanye West
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
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play. — Richard Branson
The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture. Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality. — Richard Branson
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. — Steve Ballmer
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture. — Howard Schultz
No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies. — Seth Godin
... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system. — Jeff Bezos
I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know what kids dress like and speak like, and I still hang out with them. It's just the nature of my day job. I am a freak of nature that has to understand them. — Joseph M. Kahn
As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco. — Michael Moss
Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds. — Marcus Buckingham
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. — Karen Russell
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers — Toby Robins
I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that has a great record of high-quality leadership and a culture of integrity. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance. — Sam Zell
For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. — Tony Hsieh
Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side. — Gay Mitchell
Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not. — Paul Stamets
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. — Muhammad Yunus
When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then. — Rainn Wilson
We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company. — Larry Page
At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development. — Eric Schmidt
Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace. — Robert J. Eaton
I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did not follow Jesus. Or worse, preferring the company of my sovereign self. But soon I found that my preferences were honored by neither Scripture nor Jesus. I didn't come to the conviction easily, but finally there was no getting around it: there can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from immersion and embrace of community. I am not myself by myself. Community, not the highly vaunted individualism of our culture, is the setting in which Christ is at play. — Eugene Peterson
Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private--- though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh. — Mark Twain
Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture. — John Patrick
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' — Bill Gates
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. — Jack Welch
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. — Jack Welch
Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way. — Jeff Bezos
The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking. — Richard Branson
In my culture, whispering in the company of others is considered rude. — Yolanda Hadid
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