Quotes About Purpose

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. —Steven R. Covey

If you were to write a script for the tape to be played for the mourners at your funeral, how would you like it to read? That's your Primary Aim. And once you've created the script, all you need to do is make it come true. All

The game has to be real. You have to mean it. The game is a measure of you.

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic! "And, besides, that's not the purpose of going into business. "The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

Sarah," I began softly, "if the Business Development Process were only about Orchestration, I would agree with you—it would be deadly. Absent a higher purpose, all habits are. Because that's all that Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.

The point is: your business is not your life.

But before you can determine what that role will be, you must ask yourself

these questions: What do I value most? What kind of life do I want? What do I want my life to look like, to feel like? Who do I wish to be?

Las empresas existen sólo porque la gente quiere que existan.

They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention.

He needs to know why he's doing what he's doing.

It was as though the hotel was more than just a hotel to him. "It was like the hotel was an expression of who he was, a symbol of what he believed in.

And because it starts that way, it is more likely to continue that way. And therein resides the true difference between an Adolescent company, where everything is left up to chance, and a Mature company, where there is a vision against which the present is shaped.

Remember, Sarah, any plan is better than no plan.

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

You must live your story.