Quotes About Mission

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

I'm not in business to make money.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?

You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

Concern for the souls of the "savages" was part of the mission into Virginia. When this courageous band had been sent off from England, the Reverend Mr. William Crashaw reminded the colonists, "that the end of this voyage is the destruction of the devil's kingdom, and the propagation of the Gospel."19

The King's 1606 patent for Virginia explained that the purpose of their mission to the New World was that: So noble a work may, by the Providence of God, hereafter tend to the glorie of his divine majestie, in propagating of Christian religion to such people as sit in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages (living in those parts) to human civility and quiet government.20

Whether as General, a private citizen, or as president, Washington never swerved from an expressed commitment to the Christian evangelistic mission to the Native Americans that was a legacy bequeathed to him by the very first Anglican settlers of the colony of Virginia.

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?2

Every enterprise requires commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide common vision. The goals that embody it have to be clear, public, and constantly reaffirmed. Management's first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Management

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer value? What are our results? and What is our plan?