“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Author & consultant on
Production Quality
“Although your organization’s goals and strategies may frequently change, its core values generally do not. They establish the common cultural ground rules for what is considered worth doing.”
Gunther Weil
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.”
Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang 735 – 814
Zen master
“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist & Social Scientist
“To successfully preserve wealth, a family must form a social contract among its individual members, reflecting its shared values, and
each successive generation, as a generation, must reaffirm and readopt that social compact.”
Jay Hughes
Author of Family Wealth:
Keeping it in the Family
“Let us suppose that we were asked for one all-purpose bit of advice for management, one truth that we were able to distill from ‘Excellent Companies’ research. We might be tempted to reply: figure out your value system.”
Tom Peters
In Search Of Excellence
“When you are led by values, it doesn’t cost your business, it helps your business.”
Jerry Greenfield
Co-Founder with Ben Cohen of
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.”
Peter Drucker
“Core values can be measured and profiled. It is essential to differentiate between people’s actual values and their aspired or desired values in order to develop a realistic values based organization.”
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
Roy Disney
Film Writer, Producer