Gail Kelly Quotes

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

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.

Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

To any CEO who's skeptical at all, you have to create a social enterprise today; you have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand.

I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.

A new 'look' for any organization cannot be a papier-mache cover, tacked on with Scotch tape under the heading of 'beautification.' It has to be based on a probing examination of the company and the people who work for it. As a result, the eventual external visual design becomes the graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

The environment at Fox has been very supportive for Mr. Ailes.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.