Top 100 Quotes About Business Culture
#1. 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
#3. Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#4. The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#5. hated the British business culture which I saw as slow, bureaucratic, cumbersome, lacking customer service, lacking initiatives.
Elisabeth Marx
#6. Ricardo Semler wrote a most interesting book about an including business culture (1995). He describes a Brazilian company that manufactured customized pumps.
Charles J. Pellerin
#7. I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?
Peter Saville
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. teams build a business. Culture builds the team.
David Hieatt
#13. Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.
Max Horkheimer
#14. Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.
Danah Boyd
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
David Brier
#18. 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
#19. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance.
Roger Scruton
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur
Rajasaraswathii
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.
Tim Cope
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.
Pearl Zhu
#39. Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
Philip Zaleski
#40. 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
#41. Culture is the organization's fingerprint.
Pearl Zhu
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.
David Brier
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
Pearl Zhu
#49. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#50. In the corporate world, what is not showcased well simply doesn't exist for any practical purpose!
Abhishek Ratna
#51. Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.
Christalyn Brannen
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
Charles B. Rangel
#55. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
#56. 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
#57. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#58. 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
#59. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.
Pearl Zhu
#60. Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.
David Brier
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. One of the formulas to build a successful business is to nurture an "adaptability trait" in an organization's culture.
Pearl Zhu
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.
Tony Hsieh
#69. 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
#70. Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
Tom Shadyac
#71. One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.
Walter Isaacson
#72. I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
#73. It seems like those of us who run a business can't go five minutes without encountering the term "company culture." The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.
Leah Busque
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels.
Redman
#79. The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. When you're out of quality, you're out of business.
Phil Crosby
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.
David Brier
#87. Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.
Bharath Mamidoju
#88. Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
Camille Paglia
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#93. The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about 'what is true for me' is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.
Lesslie Newbigin
#94. If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.
Ron Kaufman
#95. 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
#96. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
Barry Libert
