Top 100 Business Purpose Quotes
#1. Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.
Andrew S. Grove
#2. Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
Peter Drucker
#3. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter F. Drucker
#4. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#5. It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business
Daniel Katz
#6. Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.
Peter Drucker
#7. The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.
Marc Ostrofsky
#8. The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
James C. Collins
#9. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Charles Handy
#10. Until you have a purpose and clear direction of your life (business) you would only be building a fake brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#11. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#12. I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.
Marjorie Scardino
#13. On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.
Adolf Hitler
#14. 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
#15. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
Ray Anderson
#16. Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
Abraham Lincoln
#17. The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
Leo Burnett
#18. Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.
Dave Zirin
#19. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
#20. Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.
Richard Branson
#21. You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
John Mackey
#22. The question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.
James C. Collins
#23. Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are
Believe In Yourself.
Ian Jackson
#24. The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.
Pearl Zhu
#25. Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#27. 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
#28. As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
Ziggy Marley
#29. In the corporate world, what is not showcased well simply doesn't exist for any practical purpose!
Abhishek Ratna
#30. We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.
Arthur Levitt Jr
#31. The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.
Oprah Winfrey
#32. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.
Sydney Pollack
#33. I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.
Guo Guangchang
#34. I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in ... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride ... how the people I associated with worked together.
Diahann Carroll
#35. As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
Jon Miller
#36. I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole
#37. Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.
Jane Leavy
#38. I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.
Spencer W. Kimball
#39. Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.
Michael Parenti
#40. You have to change your environment to serve your purpose.
Ehab Atalla
#41. Every choice has a purpose. Every move is deliberate. I am deliberating creating my business and life every day.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#42. In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
Harold Geneen
#43. I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
Megan Fox
#44. The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly
#45. In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#46. As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.
Sinead O'Connor
#47. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
Marco Rubio
#48. Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. It's not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life's purpose and mission.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?
Brian Tracy
#51. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
#52. It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
Anne F. Beiler
#53. Passion without purpose leads to frustration.
Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.
Passion with purpose leads to success.
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
#54. To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.
Michael Josephson
#55. In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
Walter Kirn
#56. To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.
Peter Drucker
#57. priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely
Gary Keller
#58. Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid.
Michael Cunningham
#59. The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers.
Shep Hyken
#60. Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so profit is not the purpose of business.
Margaret Benefiel
#61. No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#62. You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.
Aeriel Miranda
#63. Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
Napoleon Hill
#64. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.
Peter Drucker
#65. Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh.
W.C. Fields
#66. Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#67. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Hilarie Owen
#68. Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.
Omer Soker
#69. Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?
Julian Barnes
#70. But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
#71. Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.
Ken Blanchard
#72. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.
William H. Seward
#74. If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those who arrive. This way, you have a purposeful task that is meeting people. Be sure to wear your name tag (on the right side of your body, please) and have business cards at the ready.
Beth Ramsay
#75. I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.
Angelina Jolie
#76. Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
#77. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.
Ray Anderson
#79. Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
Sun Tzu
#80. A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.
Abhishek Ratna
#81. Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.
Patrick Dixon
#82. Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.
Archibald Marwizi
#83. The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.
Derek Sivers
#84. The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
Peter Drucker
#85. At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.
John Irving
#86. Your purpose is God's success. You can't pay for what God want to be done. It's God's business; it's his farmland, so when he said he'll provide the rain, don't doubt it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
Donald Trump
#88. American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
Herbert Hoover
#89. Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.
Kenneth Mason
#90. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#91. An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change.
Archibald Marwizi
#92. Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
James C. Collins
#93. 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.
Muhammad Yunus
#94. People who are afraid to sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose.
Ayn Rand
#96. I'm able to utilize a lifetime of learning to help teach young people how to apply sound marketing strategy and principles for the purpose of growing the client's business. And for me, that's just too much fun.
Lionel Sosa
#97. There is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.
Larry Burkett
#98. The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
Theodore Levitt
#99. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#100. It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
Elisabeth Murdoch
