Quotes About Purpose

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents' lives.

I really kind of hate the idea that players have to solely focus on their sport.

Whatever you want to do, just make solid decisions.

When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.

Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.

I don't believe in a solo role which doesn't have any meaning.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

Choosing death is no solution, romancing life is a choice.

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

For me, it is about having a passion for solving a big problem and leaving a huge impact. Once you have that, everything else falls into place.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people's faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.

Some people are defined by what they do.