A mission statement underlines and precludes all the activities and visions that provide a company with the impetus to move forward and evolve with a view to provide the guiding principle, a manifesto and the primary goals that fuel the engine of a company's activities. Mission statements may also summarize the human resource policy and the level of commitment that a company purports in order to achieve it's goals. It usually starts with listing the nature of the company, enumerating all the possible directions that a company may take in order to pursue it's endeavors. The approaches, path ways and the necessary steps that a company is willing to take in order to ensure it's commitment to it's customers and it's stakeholders.