Organizational Purpose Quotes

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

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.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Administrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being

A lot has changed since I first arrived at CIA, but our mission remains as relevant and important as ever. And this is what makes our officers excited to come to work each morning, including me.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the 'why' are usually astute, high-performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

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

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

We've very steadily and single-mindedly been building the bureau so that we can do the work that, quote, Congress required us to do and that the American people have every reason to expect, and deserve, that we will do.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Our enduring values as a company are the most important of our mission and purpose.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.