Mission Drift Quotes

I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this incredible mission, but in fact, we sold software to Haliburton; we sold software to Frito-Lay and Pepsi and all these companies that didn't necessarily do good things.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.