Quotes About Sustainability

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

Since I don't have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Cell-based meat, or 'clean' meat - real meat produced in labs - has not become a commercial product yet. But analysts expect it to hit the shelves in 2021 or soon thereafter, and start-ups in this space, such as Memphis Meats, have raised tens of millions of dollars.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.