Best 133 quotes in «business culture quotes» category

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

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

We do not sell lipstick, we buy customers.

We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You can see it, hear it, and feel it…and it is contagious!

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

When workers’ jobs are easily sacrificed for short-term stock gains – stocks which the leaders own but the workers do not – then the truth becomes clear: We aren’t all in this together. You’re just in it for yourself, and I’m expendable.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

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.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

You are special individual. Never envy others. You never know what they go through. Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

3 qualities of a good management; Honest Hungry & Smart.

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.

All businesses could use a garden where Data Scientists plant seeds of possibility and water them with collaboration.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Be intentional when you leverage your network.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible and solid as those around him were volatile. His background was in television; he had been president of the ABC network, which was acquired in 1996 by Disney. His reputation was as an corporate suit, and he excelled at deft management, but he also had a sharp eye for talent, a good-humored ability to understand people, and a quiet flair that he was secure enough to keep muted. Unlike Eisner and Jobs, he had a disciplined calm, which helped him deal with large egos. " Steve did some grandstanding by announcing that he was ending talks with us," Iger later recalled. " We went into crisis mode and I developed some talking points to settle things down.

Certainly, the perception of the average consumer is a vital part of every business, and if a retailer, service provider, or corporation is sending out signals that its approach is lackadaisical, its methods halfhearted, and its execution indifferent, the business in question could suffer severe-and in some cases, irreparable-losses.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.