The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
My mission is not to give an apologetic for why I'm trying to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. My mission is to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. I want to be on that mission and not explaining it all the time.
What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.
As we look deeper for the soul of capitalism, we find that, in the terms of ordinary human existence, American capitalism doesn't appear to have one.
You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.
Our enduring values as a company are the most important of our mission and purpose.
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.
Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.
All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.
The more a business is able to develop and articulate a core purpose and engage with millennials, who equate purpose with business excellence, the greater chances for long-term success.
When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.
Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
