Why not turn to corporate culture quotes when seeking a spark of inspiration or a fresh perspective on your work environment? Corporate culture, whether toxic or positive, plays a crucial role in shaping the ethos and values of a company. Reading quotes about corporate culture can shed light on the significance of fostering a positive environment, where everyone feels valued and motivated. These quotes often distill the wisdom and experiences of corporate culture leadership, providing valuable insights that can be applied in your own professional journey.
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
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
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
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. — Ted Sundquist
We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success. — Bill Cahan
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. — Mary Douglas
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
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
Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications. — Eric Yuan
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. — Robert L. Peters
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. — Edgar Schein
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
Short Corporate Culture Quotes
Your culture sets your expectation for what is 'normal.' — James Clear
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg
Evidence shows that in learning cultures, organizations innovate more and make fewer mistakes. — Adam Grant
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust. — Yo-Yo Ma
The only way we can bring our corporate plans to life is by serving customers. — Jeff Lawson
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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
Company Culture Quotes
It gives people working at the group a feeling that they don’t exist only for cash flow, but for something bigger. — Bernard Arnault
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
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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
Your culture is your brand
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
Work Culture Quotes
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
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
...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
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
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
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it. — M. F. Husain
Corporate Social Responsibility Quotes
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed — Anita Roddick
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits. — Milton Friedman
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game. — Milton Friedman
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Ethics is the new competitive environment — Peter Robinson
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. — Milton Friedman
Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business — Niall FitzGerald
The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society. — Tony Blair
Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success — Bill Ford
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm. — Ray Anderson
I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places. — Narendra Modi
Corporate World Quotes
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. — Gore Vidal
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. — Pratibha Patil
Unlike the world of today, where people are more or less at the mercy of credit agencies, large corporations, and governments, Chaum’s approach balances power between individuals and organizations. — Hal Finney
Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much. — Indra Nooyi
If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion. — Helen Caldicott
Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories. — Ian P. Griffin
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women? — Winona LaDuke
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. — P. J. O'Rourke
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. — Chris Hedges
I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits. — Chris Hedges
Corporate Quotes
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state. — Unknown Author
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil. — Leonard Ravenhill
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer. — Satoru Iwata
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. — Bernie Sanders
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist. — Winona LaDuke
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism. — Noam Chomsky
Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. — Hillary Clinton
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. — Chris Hedges
I think culture is a big word for corporate character. — Jensen Huang
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society. — Noam Chomsky
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
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be three dimensional, it may be a public space, it may involve government,it may involve cultural institutions, it may involve corporations, it may involve editorial publications - it can be anything, really. — Paula Scher
... 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
The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures. — Jerry Mander
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
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. — Charles W. Pickering
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership. — Peter Drucker
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. — Henri Nouwen
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs. — Jackson Katz
[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. — Ani Difranco
I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that? — Kim Gordon
I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried. — Jello Biafra
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering. — Steven Weber
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
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse. — Simon Sinek
I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly. Because as soon as you involve people you have a small loss of control; and as soon as that happens, anything could happen. — Thea Gilmore
The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas. — Liza Featherstone
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts. — Hans Haacke
The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way. — Paul Morley
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them. — Vandana Shiva
Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix. — Bruce Schneier
To even have a conversation about uncommon brilliance you must develop a new vocabulary of freedom, which is mostly foreign in corporate cultures. — Bryant H. McGill
Real leaders use their strength to shield employees from the foul machinations of common corporate culture. — Bryant H. McGill
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society. — Simon Sinek
The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way. — John Heard
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore. I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few. — Terry Tempest Williams
In its early days the Internet seem to be a counter cultural space and an anti corporate space, now is the place for corporate economic production. What the internet is now isn't what it used to be and it doesn't have to be what it turns into. — Ramesh Srinivasan
We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams. — Adrian Gostick
The success of corporate mentorship programs developed by some of the Great Teams in business demonstrates how powerful this concept can be and what a difference it can make. As General Electric has shown, when a corporate culture includes mentorship, the end result is a dynamic learning environment with leaders constantly shaping leaders. — Don Yaeger
Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an out-of- control authoritarian parading and performing unknowingly as a clown, and as a symbol of unchecked narcissism and a bearer of a suffocating culture of fear. He is the symbol of a failed sociality and a declining social order. — Henry Giroux
Denial of numerous problems can happen in any organization, and I don't mean this as flip or negative as it's going to sound, but you see it a lot in corporate cultures right before they hit a wall. People tell themselves a story that it can turn around, it's going to turn around, we're doing all the right things, and then that story lasts until it's literally no longer sustainable or believable. — Chris Lowney
In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated. — Sallie Krawcheck
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. — Ani Difranco
Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs. — Gilberto Gil
The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture. — Joe Biden
What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation. — David Livermore
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise. — Fady Joudah
In Conclusion
Now, you may ask, what is culture if not a reflection of our collective beliefs and behaviors? Corporate culture quotes encapsulate these aspects and serve as gentle reminders of the importance of creating a positive corporate culture. They can inspire you to challenge the status quo, advocate for change, and contribute to transforming a potentially toxic corporate culture into a positive one. Reading and reflecting on these quotes can empower you to become a catalyst for positive change, enhancing not only your personal growth but also the overall success of your organization.
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