Company Culture Quotes

• 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

  Inspiring, Leadership, Running

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• For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Character, Destiny

  FaceBook post by Tony Hsieh from Feb 12, 2014

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• Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Organization, Culture

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  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

  Peter Drucker

  Culture, Breakfast, Strategy

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• To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

  Douglas Conant

  Appreciation, Winning, Top Management

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Fun, Caring, Helping Others

  "How to Win by Throwing out the Traditional Hiring Playbook" by Sean McNamara, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Leadership, Play, People

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• You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Team, People, Entrepreneur

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• Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  Zig Ziglar

  Appreciation, Jobs, Organization

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• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Country, Trying

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.108, Penguin

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• Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

  Richard Branson

  Skills, People, Personality

  "How to Win by Throwing out the Traditional Hiring Playbook" by Sean McNamara, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Culture, Company, Sermons

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• I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits.

  Tony Hsieh

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Part of company culture is path-dependent.  It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

  Jeff Bezos

  Culture, Lessons, Way

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• 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

  Business, Environmental, Climate

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• I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Games, Sweat

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