Quotes About A Mission Statement

#1. A person has to have a target, a goal, a mission statement, a dream, a vision of what she/he wants to accomplish, or nothing lasting will be realized.

Teresa Hampton

#2. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.

Jonny Diaz

#3. To do this you need 1 tablespoon of aims, a mission statement, 1 cup of objectives and goals, bake for 45 minutes, and allow to cool. The result: a strategic plan.

Anonymous

#4. ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

Karen Karbo

#5. 1. The lecture notes that mission statements can be mundane, uninspiring, routine, and forgotten. They can also be nonexistent. Do you have a mission statement, an articulation of your purpose in life? If not, craft one now. If so, ask honestly, as Mintzberg suggests we do, whether it inspires you.

Anonymous

#6. 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.

Stephen Covey

#7. Room is the wrong word. It's not a room - it's a mission statement.

E.L. James

#8. We must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.

James Hunter

#9. Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Dave Ramsey

#10. Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Barry McGee

#11. Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Brian Mulroney

#12. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard

#13. The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

Stephen Covey

#14. Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Ryan Lilly

#15. Without a vision and a mission, your company can be termed as a 'Bull' set free in the busy streets of the corporate world

Henrietta Newton Martin

#16. Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Merlin Mann

#17. A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.

Roy H. Williams

#18. So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways.

Michael Emerson

#19. People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

Douglas Conant

#20. It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

Liane Moriarty

#21. Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

Howard Schultz

#22. Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Daniel Breaker

#23. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen R. Covey

#24. A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

Stephen Covey

#25. I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

Lena Dunham

#26. Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#27. A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission

Henrietta Newton Martin

#28. With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Glenn Reynolds

#29. The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

Meles Zenawi

#30. I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

Chris Matakas

#31. If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Stephen Covey

#32. An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

Stephen Covey