How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich — Paul Hawken Earth Copy Share Image
First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken Aberration Copy Share Image
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. — Paul Hawken Accountability Copy Share Image
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — 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
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even… — Paul Hawken Compassionate Copy Share Image
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all… — Paul Hawken Governing Copy Share Image
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an… — 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
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — Paul Hawken Amends Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken Aspirations Copy Share Image
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates… — Paul Hawken Achievements Copy Share Image
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken Construction Copy Share Image
For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work… — Paul Hawken Art Copy Share Image
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be… — Paul Hawken Anxiety Copy Share Image
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
