Business leaders Quote by Terry Tamminen

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

— Henry Paulson

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America,…

— Gray Davis

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any…

— Henry Paulson

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on…

— Klaus Topfer

Technological progress has made clean energy a profitable investment, and growing popular pressure has forced politicians to respond to the threat of ecological disaster.

— Brian Deese

As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often…

— Jonathon Porritt

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to…

— Bill McKibben

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

— Carly Fiorina

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

— Paul Polman

The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used…

— Barack Obama

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the…

— Alice Waters