Business Quotes - Page 33

• A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

  Phil Harding

  Management, Environment, Economics

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• Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

  Phil Harding

  Cost, Earth, Management

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• A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

  Laozi

  Men, Sound, Economics

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• Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

  Tom DeLay

  Opportunity, Climate, Management

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• The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Management, Loan

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• Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Book, Reading

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

  Irv Robbins

  Mean, Ideas, Biggie

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• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Responsibility, Blood, Cash Flow

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• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Responsibility, Government, Waiting

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Risk, Climate

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• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

  Bill McKibben

  Fuel, Waste, Fossils

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

  Hilary Benn

  Needs, Management, Economics

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• A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

  Neil Tierney

  Design, Management, Economics

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Design, Environmental, Energy

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• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

  David Miliband

  Carbon Emissions, Environmental, Energy

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Team, Thinking, Environmental

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• Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

  Margaret Beckett

  Impact, Long, Environmental

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• In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

  Margaret Beckett

  Eye, Best Practices, Long

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• Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.

  Sergio Bambaren

  Life, Encouraging, Time

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• The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

  Vandana Shiva

  Technology, Management, Economics

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• (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

  Peter Drucker

  Loss, Guiding Principles, Waste

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• It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

  Phil Harding

  Excellence, Incentives, Lasts

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• I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

  David Miliband

  School, Worry, Together

  "We nearly threw it away. We must be more radical". Interview with Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2006.

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• Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity

  Phil Harding

  Running, Opportunity, Promise

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• The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Successful, World, Management

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