Loading Innovation Corporate Citizenship Investors Careers Newsroom Patients Healthcare Professionals About Us Home About Us Our Mission Company Profile Businesses Our Mission Core Technologies Corporate Responsibility Our Mission Written in 1960, our mission dictates that our first and foremost priority is to contribute to human welfare. Over a half-century later, the Mission continues to serve as an ethical framework and an inspirational goal for our employees around the world. It guides our day-to-day work and reminds us that our efforts are transforming the lives of millions of people each year. The Medtronic Mission To contribute to human welfare by application of biomedical engineering in the research, design, manufacture, and sale of instruments or appliances that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. To direct our growth in the areas of biomedical engineering where we display maximum strength and ability; to gather people and facilities that tend to augment these areas; to continuously build on these areas through education and knowledge assimilation; to avoid participation in areas where we cannot make unique and worthy contributions. (See the Patients section for more about our therapies.) To strive without reserve for the greatest possible reliability and quality in our products; to be the unsurpassed standard of comparison and to be recognized as a company of dedication, honesty, integrity, and service. (See Quality to learn more about our industry leadership in this area.) To make a fair profit on current operations to meet our obligations, sustain our growth, and reach our goals. (See Investor Relations to learn more.) To recognize the personal worth of employees by providing an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. (See Careers to learn more.) To maintain good citizenship as a company. (See Corporate Citizenship to learn more.) Next: Core Technologies Last updated: 10 Dec 2013 Our Mission Every 3 Seconds Print Page E-mail Page A A A Text Size Improving Lives Around the World Together, with valued healthcare providers, we improve a life like Kobi’s every 3 seconds. Learn more Continuing Inspiration At our annual employee Holiday event, we invite physicians and their patients to share their stories as a reminder of our purpose. Kelly shares her story about bowel incontinence. Read the story It All Started in a Garage! Read about Medtronic's earliest days and the Mission that inspires us all. Learn more © 2014 Medtronic, Inc. Privacy Statement Terms of Use Contact Us Site Map UNITED STATES