Geert Hofstede Quotes

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

Geert Hofstede

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • You
  • Water

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

  

  Oliver North
  • Safety
  • Lives
  • Responsible

• I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Mentor

• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Path
  • Temptation

• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Law
  • Going

• You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Humanity
  • Adventure
  • Call

• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • Passion

• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Business
  • Future
  • Fear

• An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Purpose

• By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Culture
  • Differences
  • Disaster