Company Culture Quotes

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."

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

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

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.

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

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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