David Droga Quotes

If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.

Since the earliest days of Eventbrite, we've made our people core to our mission. Our culture is an ever-evolving manifestation of those on our team. As people join, we believe in earning their trust by demonstrating we'll embrace them and help them grow.

If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.

Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.

Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand.

Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

We would rather have our employees running our business.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

Gillette is one of those companies where it's about success, and that's who I want to partner myself with.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.