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 improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.Collection: Inspiring
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.Collection: Business
If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too lateCollection: Thinking
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.Collection: Inspirational
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.Collection: Nuclear
I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.Collection: Meaningful
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.Collection: Dark
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?Collection: Confused
While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.Collection: Years
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.Collection: Jobs
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.Collection: Stories
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.Collection: Differences
We are the only species on this planet without full employment.Collection: Meaningful
Being a good human being is good business.Collection: Good Business
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.Collection: Luck
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.Collection: Lines
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?Collection: Doe