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Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.
~ Theodore Levitt
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.
~ Jean Monnet
There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.
~ Louis Armstrong
You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
~ Azim Premji
We should be in the business of living, not making a living.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
~ Jon Miller
It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
~ Jerry Greenfield
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.
~ Matthew Henry
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?
~ Yisroel Salanter
There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people's lives.
~ Richard Branson
The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.
~ Tony Robbins
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business
~ Tommy Barnett
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
~ Jim Rohn
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
~ Peter Drucker
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
~ Dorothy Rowe
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
~ Simon Mainwaring
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
~ Zig Ziglar
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
~ Morley Safer
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
~ Julie Walters