1. Culture Quotes

2. “Your culture is your competitive advantage.” - Gavin Patterson, CEO BT

3. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.” - Henry Ford

4. “We shape our environment, then our environment shapes us.” - Winston Churchill

5. “If you don't transform your company, you're stuck.” - Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox

6. " I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. Vision, strategy, marketing, financial management—any management system, in fact can set you on the right path and can carry you for a while. But no enterprise—whether in business, government, education, health care, or any area of human endeavor—will succeed over the long haul if those elements aren't part of its DNA.” - Louis V. Grestner

7. "A mantra for business transformations - Change before you have to" - Jack Welch

8. “The business model that sustained us for decades is no longer sufficient to sustain profitability.” - Bill Ford, email to all employees, 2006

9. “Abandon yesterday.” - Peter Drucker

10. “In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.” —Lou Gerstner

11. “You could pretty well summarize the history of society and the institutions in it in four words: Nothing fails like success. - Arnold Toynbee, great historian

12. “To change an organization you have to change its stories” - Richard Stone

13. “ A strong culture by itself is not a guarantee of economic success.” - Janelle Barlow

14. “I did not realize the importance of culture when I became CEO.” - John Chambers, Cisco CEO

15. “When you are changing the culture, people look to se you react when the required behaviour is not delivered. If every time people fail your treat it as ok, then failure becomes ok.” - Dominique Fournier

16. “Your brand is your culture.” - Tony Hsieh

17. “A culture of execution requires constancy and discipline - you can’t give up.” - Liz Mellon & Simon Carter

18. “To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” - Rosabeth Kanter

19. “The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change.” - Jim Collins

20. “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” - Jack Welch

21. “Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we'll settle for intense.” - Jeff Bezos

22. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.” - Tom Peters

23. “Small groups of people can have a really huge impact” - Larry Page

24. “Money motivates neither the best people nor the best in people. Purpose does.” - Nilofer

25. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” - Warren Buffett

26. “It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.” - Jeff Immelt

27. “When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place.” - Mark Zuckerberg

28. "Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?" - J. Paul Getty

29. ”When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” - Henry J. Kaiser

30. “In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.” - Edgar Schein