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Business Quotes by Paul Hawken
- If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to…
- We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can…
- Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets…
- Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical…
- We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the…
- Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
- 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.
- The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
- Being a good human being is good business.
- Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their…
- Don't go to business school.
- Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral…
- The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.
- Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with…
- 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 highest…
- There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.
- Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.
More Business Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash