Quotes About Culture

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

Rapping's a release of the good and the bad - that's the definition of hyphy. You can't be like that, you can't get hyphy in, like, a business environment. I can be me. I'm energy. Hyphy is energy.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.