Business Culture Quotes

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

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

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

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too.

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.” Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

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

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

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

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

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

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

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

I used to believe that culture was “soft,” and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.

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

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

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

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

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.

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

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that's not the main distinction of my career. The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side. In the seventies computers became a way for people to express their creativity. Great artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were also great art science. Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor.

She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s got to be in charge of everything.”I sit next to her. “Well, I guess. But in business, that’s leadership.”Tina stares at me for a second. “I can’t believe you consider that a positive trait. How about her inability to accept other points of view? Is it good leadership to be narrow, too?”“Focus,” I say. “They call that focus.”Tina stares at me. “Her paranoia?”“Business savvy.”“Compulsive need to have everything just how she wants it?”“Organizational skills.”“Aggressiveness?”“Aggressiveness,” I say, “is already a good thing.”“Jesus Christ,” Tina says, her eyebrow ring glinting in the morning sun. “Sometimes I worry about this country.

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,"he said."Thats crazy, Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say ' Wow, and soon your cooking up all sorts of ideas." So he had the Pixar building planned to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations. " If a building doesn't encourage that, you'll lose a lot of innovation and the magic that's sparked by serendipity,"he said.

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.

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.

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

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had ever made. At other times it could be terrifying, such as when he was fulminating about Google or Microsoft ripping of Apple.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

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

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

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new “product” without trying to understand it. They got behind the new pitch wholeheartedly, even when it was risible and/or made no sense, and then, if a prospective customer had trouble understanding the “product,” they didn’t vocally agree that it sure was difficult to understand, didn’t make a good-faith effort to explain the complicated reasoning behind it, but simply kept hammering on the written pitch. And clearly this was the path to success, and it was all a double disillusionment to Pip, who not only felt actively punished for using her brain but was presented every month with fresh evidence that Bay Area consumers on average responded better to a rote and semi-nonsensical pitch than to a well-meaning saleswoman trying to help them understand the offer.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

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

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

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

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Successful business is always almost dishonest

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

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

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