Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. — Peter Drucker
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. — Steven Spielberg
Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life. — Luci Swindoll
Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true — Marcel Wanders
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. — Mark Zuckerberg
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed. — William McDonough
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. — Bill Bowerman
Our goal for the group is to remain a family company. — Bernard Arnault
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. — William McKinley
Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential. — Larry Fink
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Short Mission Statement Quotes
Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ. — Michael Frost
Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. — Peter Drucker
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. — Sam Walton
Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers. — Konosuke Matsushita
Once you have a customer defined, then you define a mission. — Jeff Lawson
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains — Kevin Rose
Mission Statement Image Quotes
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
Personal Mission Statement Quotes
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. — Stephen Covey
I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others. — Joel Manby
Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you
To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it. — Ken Blanchard
Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make. — Stephen Covey
A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make. — Stephen Covey
Vision And Mission Quotes
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord. — John Gibson Paton
Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow. — Jon C. Madonna
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. — A. B. Simpson
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. — Hudson Taylor
Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family. — Tom Vilsack
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. — Alan Hirsch
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it. — Soren Kierkegaard
Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management. — Howard Schultz
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. — Ron Livingston
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it. — Barry McGee
My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements. — Janet Mock
If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?' — C. K. Prahalad
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement. — Merlin Mann
It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life. — Stephen Covey
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. — Stephen Covey
we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement. — James Hunter
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building! — Dave Ramsey
A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves. — Laurie Beth Jones
That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts. — Ricky Skaggs
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. — Brian Mulroney
The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved. — Kathy Ireland
It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it. — Shane Black
It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says. — Dallas Willard
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory. — Glenn Reynolds
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report. — Meles Zenawi
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear. — Frank Iero
One of the biggest struggles that I've faced and overcome is finding a balance between emotion and facilitating it through logical means. One of the biggest challenges I have is finding that balance. This emotional mess that I am and this logical side of me, I try to find the medium that will balance me out. I think that's my big mission statement in life: to find that balance. It's a negative-positive and how that relates. — Keith Stanfield
An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day. — Stephen Covey
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement. — Roy H. Williams
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. — Stephen Covey
For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints. — Melissa Auf der Maur
"It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean that his life was over like, "I'm finished". It was a statement of achievement of purpose - God's purpose to deal with sin and guilt, to defeat all the powers of evil, to bring about the reconciliation of enemies, to defeat death itself, and to accomplish the reconciliation and liberation of the whole creation. — Christopher J. H. Wright
When you ask about "mission" it is easy to reference a "mission statement" which, in my case, is the quest, however Quixotic, at times, to sensitize everyone I am in contact with to the miracle of life on Earth, and our sacred responsibilities to preserve, protect and revere biodiversity, at every possible juncture of our days and nights. We have very little time. — Michael Tobias
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church. — Dallas Willard
There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community. — John C. Maxwell
So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways. — Michael Emerson
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building. — Stephen Covey
From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself. — Jonny Diaz
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world. — Jim Carrey
To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements. — Gordon Gee
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently. — Russell L. Ackoff
I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home. — Oprah Winfrey
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question. — Adam Grant
You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values. — Stephen Covey
Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) — Maria Semple
Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in. — Rob Thurman
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