Business Quote by James Cook

“There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.”

— Alan Shalloway

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

— William McDonough

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

We want to stop waste because we respect taxpayers and we respect our public services.

— Rachel Reeves

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management,…

— Rick Riordan

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

— DeWitt Wallace

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

— will.i.am

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. — James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones, Lean Thinking (Free Press)”

— Ash Maurya