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The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. -- Leo Burnett
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
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. -- James Rouse
The purpose of a business is to create customers. -- Sam Wyly
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. -- Peter Drucker
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One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose. -- Andrew Mason
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
Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue. -- John Mackey
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. -- Sara Blakely
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. -- N. T. Wright
But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. -- Timothy Geithner
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. -- Herbert Hoover
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. -- Nat King Cole
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. -- Peter Drucker
... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God. -- Larry Burkett
The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers. -- Shep Hyken
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. -- Peter F. Drucker
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity -- Peter Drucker
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh. -- W. C. Fields
Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person. -- Ken Blanchard
It's not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life's purpose and mission. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money. -- Theodore Levitt
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. -- Charles Handy
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. -- Napoleon Hill
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. -- Peter Drucker
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. -- Peter Drucker
The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out. -- Oprah Winfrey
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose. -- Brian Tracy
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. -- Peter Drucker
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
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
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
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
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
ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments. -- St. Lucia
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

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