Business And Culture Quotes

#1. The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.

Mary Ritter Beard

#2. The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

Steve Lawrence

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

#6. Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.

Irl M. Davis

#7. People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

Thurston Moore

#8. History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding).

David Brier

#9. The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

Hassanal Bolkiah

#10. A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.

JJ Ramberg

#11. Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

David Brier

#12. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#13. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?

In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.

David Brier

#14. We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.

Dan Wieden

#15. Sure to become mandatory reading for anyone with an interest in big business and popular culture . . . Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond.

Walter Isaacson

#16. It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.

Abhishek Ratna

#17. Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

Barry Libert

#18. There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, " Did you think of this? " said Fadell. " And then we'd all go, " Holy Shit." He'd redefine the problem or approach, and our little problem would go away.

Walter Isaacson

#19. Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

Karl-Henrik Robert

#20. People in a process culture understand how the concept of an end-to-end business process provides value to clients and how their individual roles impact that value.

Peter Franz

#21. We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

John Woodward

#23. If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Cal Thomas

#24. However, if we conceive of a culture as one body, which it is, we see that all of its disciplines are everybody's business, and that the proper university product is therefore not the whittled-down, isolated mentality of expertise, but a mind competent in all its concerns.

Wendell Berry

#25. Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Camille Paglia

#26. It was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly

Alice Schroeder

#27. By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Michael Dell

#28. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Denise Moreland

#29. Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.

Joseph Michelli

#30. It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

David Brier

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Mary Landrieu

#34. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Alfie Kohn

#35. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

Neil Postman

#36. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

Sophie Kinsella

#37. Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Horace Greeley

#38. Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

Keith Ferrazzi

#39. People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

Enock Maregesi

#40. I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

Douglas Conant

#41. We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent

Brad Stone

#42. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.

Kevin E. Phillips

#43. We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

Warren Berger

#44. No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

Terence McKenna

#45. Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

David Brier

#46. My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Russell Simmons

#47. One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}

Martin Heidegger

#48. I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Steve Albini

#49. Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

Barack Obama

#50. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#52. It's not an exaggeration to say that different generations may see the same behaviors or dynamics in the workplace and perceive completely different things, whether positive or negative.

Crystal Kadakia

#53. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Henry Mintzberg

#54. Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Lin Yutang

#55. The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

Curtis Jackson

#56. Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

Ernest Dimnet

#57. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#58. While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education ... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#59. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

Dan Gediman

#60. The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#61. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.

Beth Ramsay

#62. One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Walter Isaacson

#63. Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

Paul Smith

#64. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Ginni Rometty

#65. To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#66. Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.

Alyssa Milano

#67. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

Arianna Huffington

#68. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#69. I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation ... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

Sam Altman

#70. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

Tony Dovale

#71. Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

Angela Carter

#72. Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.

Chang-rae Lee

#73. The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Steven Sinofsky

#74. Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three circles: what they can be best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine, and the core values they hold with deep passion.

Isadore Sharp

#75. Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

Steven Sinofsky

#76. In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

Jim Blasingame

#77. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.

Pearl Zhu

#78. We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world - in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light in the society?

Michael Brown

#79. The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels.

Redman

#80. The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

Jonathan Galassi

#81. Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

Suzy Kassem

#82. I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

#83. The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.

Aubrey Menen

#84. I used to believe that culture was "soft," and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.

Vern Dosch

#85. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#86. You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Rose McGowan

#87. Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.

Francois-Henri Pinault

#88. I haven't given up me and I get to be a big part of my girls' lives. It's an amazing feeling that what I put into my business, I get out of it.- Jennifer Saint Jean, Itty Bitty Bag Company

Holly Hurd

#89. Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

Seth Godin

#90. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

David Brier

#91. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.

Pearl Zhu

#92. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.

Thomas J. Harbin

#93. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

Pearl Zhu

#94. In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

Charles B. Rangel

#95. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

#96. Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Arkady Volozh

#97. Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Christalyn Brannen

#98. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,

Carolyn Taylor

#99. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

Pearl Zhu

#100. Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

Kendrick Lamar