100 Organizational Culture Quotes That Highlight What Matters
A company’s culture isn’t just built, it’s lived every day through shared values, behaviors, and communication.
A strong culture drives engagement, boosts performance, and helps teams thrive even in challenging times.
These quotes reveal what it takes to create and maintain a workplace where people feel valued, empowered, and connected.
Let them guide your efforts to shape something meaningful.
Top Organizational Culture Quotes
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. ~ Peter Drucker
The way I think about culture is that modern humans have radically changed the way that they work and the way that they live. Companies need to change the way they manage and lead to match the way that modern humans actually work and live. ~ Brian Halligan
Corporate culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage that is completely within the control of the entrepreneur. ~ David Cummings
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. ~ Simon Sinek
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success. ~ Adam Grant
A company’s culture and a company’s brand are really just two sides of the same coin. ~ Tony Hsieh
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with a passion. ~ Brian Chesky
The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. ~ Brian Chesky
The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything. ~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole. ~ Tracy Streckenbach
The culture of a company is the foundation for future innovation. ~ Brian Chesky
The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it’s lack of clarity. ~ Jeff Weiner
Culture is what motivates and retains talented employees. ~ Betty Thompson
The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. ~ Edgar Schein
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment. ~ Edgar Schein
Culture is the environment that surrounds you at work all of the time. Culture is a powerful element that shapes your work enjoyment, your work relationships, and your work processes. ~ Catherine Adenle
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It’s living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. ~ Brian Chesky
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. ~ Thomas Wolfe
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear. ~ Walter Lippmann
Workplace Culture Quotes
The only thing we have is one another. The only competitive advantage we have is the culture and values of the company. ~ Howard Schultz
Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. ~ Simon Sinek
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. ~ Betty Bender
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers. ~ Sam Walton
Take care of your employees and they’ll take care of your business. It’s as simple as that. ~ Richard Branson
Hire character. Train skill. ~ Peter Schutz
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to. ~ Richard Branson
You don’t build a business. You build people, and people build the business. ~ Zig Ziglar
Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. ~ Richard Branson
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ~ Socrates
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ~ Phil Jackson
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ~ Henry Ford
None of us is as smart as all of us. ~ Ken Blanchard
Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people. ~ Steve Jobs
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~ Henry Ford
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~ Vince Lombardi
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~ Lewis B. Ergen
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. ~ Babe Ruth
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. ~ H.E. Luccock
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller
Company Values Quotes
Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul. ~ John C. Maxwell
Values aren’t buses… They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are. ~ Jennifer Crusie
Open communication, equality, and honesty are the values that should determine how we live. ~ Belinda Johnson
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do. ~ Elvis Presley
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~ Roy Disney
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. ~ Roy E. Disney
The most important thing in life is to decide what is most important. ~ Anonymous
Values are the foundation of a company. They are the groundwork for all decisions. ~ Anonymous
Values are the deeply held beliefs that guide our actions and decisions. ~ Anonymous
Your values create your internal compass that can navigate how you make decisions in your life. If you don’t know what your values are, then you’re essentially taking a rowboat out into the ocean. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Values are the seeds from which all behavior grows. ~ Anonymous
Values are the standards that guide our conduct in a variety of settings. ~ Anonymous
Values are the principles, standards, or qualities that an individual or group of people hold in high regard. ~ Anonymous
Values are the basis for ethical action. ~ Anonymous
Values are the fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions. ~ Anonymous
Values are the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations. ~ Anonymous
Values are the rules by which we make decisions about right and wrong, should and shouldn’t, good and bad. ~ Anonymous
Values are the standards we live by. They are the principles that guide our lives. ~ Anonymous
Values are the beliefs, attitudes, and judgments we prize. ~ Anonymous
Organizational Behavior Quotes
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers. ~ Sam Walton
Take care of your employees and they’ll take care of your business. It’s as simple as that. ~ Richard Branson
Hire character. Train skill. ~ Peter Schutz
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to. ~ Richard Branson
You don’t build a business. You build people, and people build the business. ~ Zig Ziglar
Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. ~ Richard Branson
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ~ Socrates
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ~ Phil Jackson
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ~ Henry Ford
None of us is as smart as all of us. ~ Ken Blanchard
Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people. ~ Steve Jobs
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~ Henry Ford
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~ Vince Lombardi
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~ Lewis B. Ergen
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. ~ Babe Ruth
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. ~ H.E. Luccock
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. ~ African Proverb
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. ~ Vince Lombardi
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~ Andrew Carnegie
Corporate Identity Quotes
Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room. ~ Jeff Bezos
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. ~ Jeff Bezos
Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business. ~ Steve Forbes
Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind. ~ Walter Landor
A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir. ~ Lisa Gansky
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. ~ Scott Bedbury
Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room. ~ Chris Ducker
If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. ~ Howard Schultz
Your culture is your brand. ~ Tony Hsieh
Your brand is a gateway to your true work. ~ Dave Buck
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. ~ Elon Musk
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is. ~ Scott Cook
Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points. ~ Jonah Sachs
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. ~ Simon Mainwaring
A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another. ~ Seth Godin
If you don’t give the market the story to talk about, they’ll define your brand’s story for you. ~ David Brier
Your brand is what you stand for, what you believe in, and what makes you different. ~ Anonymous
A brand is the sum of all expressions by which an entity intends to be recognized. ~ Anonymous
Your brand is your promise to your customer. It tells them what they can expect from your products and services, and it differentiates your offering from that of your competitors. ~ Anonymous
A brand is a reason to choose. ~ Cheryl Burgess
