Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
