Corporate Culture Quotes
Top 40 Corporate Culture Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-watson-jr.jpg)
Beliefs must always come before policies, practices and goals.
- Thomas Watson Jnr, boss of IBM,
pictured right, in A Business and Its
Beliefs (1963).
No 2![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-kelleher.jpg)
Your spirit is the most powerful thing of all.
- Herb Kelleher (1931- ), founder of Southwest
Airlines, pictured right.
No 3![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-honda.jpg)
Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless.
- Soichiro Honda (1906-91), co-founder of
Honda, pictured right.
No 4![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) American
president, pictured right (repeating what Jesus said)
No 5![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
The enterprise is a community of human beings. Its performance is the performance of human beings. And a human
community must be founded on common beliefs, must symbolize its cohesion in common principles.
Peter Drucker, pictured right, in The Practice of Management (1954)
No 6![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-fd.jpg)
Our strength is our unity of
purpose
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), pictured right, American
president.
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-pascale.jpg)
No 7
Great companies make meaning.
- Richard Pascale, pictured right. and Anthony
Athos, pictured right below, in The Art of Japanese Management (1982).![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-athos.jpg)
No 8![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-dalai-lama.jpg)
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values,
- the Dalai Lama (1935-), Tibetan leader, pictured
right.
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-kelleher.jpg)
Herb Kelleher (1931-), American boss of
Southwest Airlines 1982-2001, pictured right agrees:
You can change your practices, not your principles.
No 9![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-kroc.jpg)
Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value
- the four key values of McDonald's created by its founder, Ray
Kroc, pictured right.
No 10![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-goffee.jpg)
There is not one ‘right’ or ‘best’ culture for an organization – only the appropriate culture for a business
environment.
- Rob Goffee, pictured right. and Gareth Jones, pictured right below, in The Character of a
Corporation (1998), pictured right.![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-jones.jpg)
No 11![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-whyte.jpg)
The ones I’m talking about belong to it.
- William H. Whyte, pictured right. (talking about what he called the “organization man”) in
his book The Organization Man (1956)
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-pascale.jpg)
No 12
The best firms link their purposes and ways of realizing them to human values as well as to economic measures
like profit and efficiency
- Richard Pascale, pictured right above, and Anthony
Athos, pictured right, in The Art of Japanese Management (1982)
No 13![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-handy.jpg)
Much of the trouble in organizations comes from the attempt to go on doing things as they used to be done, from
a reluctance to change the culture when it needs to be changed.
- Charles Handy, pictured right, in The Gods of Management (1985)
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quoteshes.jpg)
No 14
Cultures can be very stable over time, but they are never static... New challenges can lead to the creation of
new ways of doing things.
- James Heskett, pictured right, and John Kotter, pictured right below, in Corporate Culture and Performance (1992)
No 15![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-trompenaars.jpg)
Culture is the way in which a group of people solves problems and reconciles dilemmas.
- Fons Trompenaars, pictured
right, and Charles Hampden-Turner,
pictured right below, in Riding the Waves of Culture (2nd edition, 1997).
No 16![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-chekhov.jpg)
Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
- Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian writer, pictured right.
No 17![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-bezos.jpg)
If you look at our company culture, we’ve always had a customer obsession, and we’ve always been pioneering.
Jeff Bezos (1964- ), founder of
Amazon, pictured
right.
No 18![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-bower-marv.jpg)
The way we do things around here [definition of corporate culture].
- Marvin Bower, boss of the American management consultants, McKinsey 1950-67, pictured
right.
No 19![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
We must, indeed, hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately
(at the signing of the American Declaration of
Independence,1776).
- Benjamin
Franklin (1706-90) American politician, and inventor, pictured right.
No 20![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-greer.jpg)
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called
brain-washing.
- Germaine Greer (1939- ), Australian feminist, pictured right.
No 21![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-kelleher.jpg)
Nothing kills your company’s culture like layoffs.
- Herb Kelleher (1931- ), founder of Southwest
Airlines, pictured right.
No 22![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-malone.jpg)
I chose four key words as my guiding principles: Inspire, Innovate, Ignite, Integrity.
- Jo Malone, English fragrance entrepreneur, pictured right.
No 23![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-rommel.jpg)
Don't fight a battle,if you don't gain anything by winning.
- Erwin Rommel (1891-1945), German World War Two general, pictured right.
No 24![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quoteshit.jpg)
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence
among those that it is addressed to.
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), pictured right,
German dictator.
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotesloess.jpg)
No 25
I have no point of view! Supposing the company thinks...I think so too!
- Frank Loesser (1910-69), pictured right, in the 1961 song Company Way.
No 26![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-leahy.jpg)
Strong values underpin successful businesses.
- Terry Leahy (1956-), chief executive of the
British supermarket chain, Tesco, 1997-2011, pictured right.
No 27![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-paine.jpg)
Moderation in principle is always a vice,
- Thomas (Tom)
Paine (1737-1809), English philosopher, pictured right.
No 28![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-pascal.jpg)
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find
attractive.
- Blaise Pascal (1623-62),
French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 29![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-wittgenstein.jpg)
At the core of all well founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
- Ludwig
Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-born British philosopher, pictured right.
No 30![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-keller.jpg)
Tolerance is the first principle of community.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), American
campaigner for the disabled, pictured right.
No 31![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-winfrey.jpg)
You become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-), African
American chat show host, pictured right.
No 32![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-ruskin.jpg)
Obedience to a code of conduct based upon the teaching of the wise mind is the only foundation of success.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900), English artist
and philosopher, pictured right.
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-edie-onwaterfront.jpg)
No 33
Isn’t everybody a part of everybody else?,
- Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint in the 1954 film, On the Waterfront), pictured right above).
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-collins.jpg)
No 34
The crucial variable is not the content of a company’s ideology, but how deeply it believes its ideology and how
consistently it lives, breathes, and expresses it in all that it does.
- Jim Collins, pictured right above, and Jerry
Porras, pictured right below, Built
to Last (1994).![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-porras.jpg)
No 35 ![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-gerstner.jpg)
Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game – it is the game.
- Lou Gerstner, pictured right, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance (2002).
No 36![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-handy.jpg)
Inappropriate cultures lead to unhappiness and inefficiency.
- Charles Handy, pictured right. The Gods of Management (1985).
![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-peters-tom.jpg)
No 37
The excellent companies live their commitment to people.
- Tom Peters, pictured right below, and Robert Waterman, pictured right, In Search of
Excellence (1982)![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-waterman.jpg)
No 38![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
There are two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French
leader, pictured right.
No 39![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quoteswhite.jpg)
Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861- 1947), English philosopher, pictured right.
No 40![Corporate Culture Quotes Corporate Culture Quotes](images/quotes-henry.jpg)
United we stand, divided we fall.
- Patrick Henry (1736-99), American
politician, pictured right.
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