Corporate Culture Quotes

• Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

  Simon Sinek

  Impact, People, Matter

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  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

  Peter Drucker

  Culture, Breakfast, Strategy

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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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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

  Bruce Schneier

  Culture, Problem, Harder

  "Visa and Amex Drop CardSystems". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. August 15, 2005.

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• What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.

  David Livermore

  Differences, Innovation, Culture

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  Jackson Katz

  Sports, Winning, Media

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• Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Negative, Culture

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Party, Organization

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• What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

  Ezra Furman

  Rocks, Culture, Rock N Roll

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• 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

  Technology, Culture, Should

  "Samsung and Hyundai issue rallying call" by Song Jung-a, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Trying, President, Culture

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• 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

  Issues, Progress, Culture

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• 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

  Motivation, Creativity, People

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• 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

  Culture, Body, Slipping

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Whales, People

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• Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

  Andrew Mason

  Writing, Marketing, Culture

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• ... 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

  Appreciation, Caring, Organization

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• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• 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

  Teaching, Fall, Learning

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Real, Practice

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• 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

  Cnn, People, Gathering

  "Greta Van Susteren Slams CNN Over Holiday Layoffs: 'No "Heroes" In Management There!'" by Nicholas Graham, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2009.

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• 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

  Silly, Sound, Culture

  Gordon Bethune (1999). “From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback”, Wiley

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• 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

  Believe, Issues, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Unique, Practice, Skills

  "The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. November 28, 2006.

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