Quotes About Sustainability

The more people are into quick fixes and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition.

And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results possible.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of

Competition is fierce; survival is at stake. The need to produce today is today's reality and represents the demands of capital, but the real mantra of success is sustainability and growth. You may be able to meet your quarterly numbers, but the real question is, are you making the necessary investment that will sustain and increase that success one, five, and ten years from now?

Yesterday's meal will not satisfy today's hunger. It is regular input that provides energy and health.

El Dr. Covey solía decir que «la única ventaja competitiva sostenible que perdura es aquella que nace de una cultura organizacional de alta confianza, centrada en principios, con personas comprometidas y alineadas a una visión común.

As part of an interdependent world, you have to relate to that world every day. But the acute problems of that world can easily obscure the chronic character causes.

In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset—a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Un crecimiento controlado, sostenido y rentable es en parte un arte y en parte una ciencia.

Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.

tragedy of the commons

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? -Lee Iacocca, former chairman, Ford Motor Company

today there are more than three billion people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation systems. In absolute numbers, we have gone backward as a species.

But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: What are we going to do with all of this shit?

If we're going to survive as a planet with more than 6 billion people without destroying the complex balance of our natural ecosystems, the best way to do it is to crowd as many of those humans into metropolitan spaces and return the rest of the planet to Mother Nature.

whether cities or bodies—find productive uses for the waste they create.

it's a fallacy to think that people "need resources" in the first place.17 They need ways of growing food, moving around, lighting their homes, displaying information, and other sources of well-being. They satisfy these needs with ideas: with recipes, formulas, techniques, blueprints, and algorithms for manipulating the physical world to give them what they want.

It's often said that the Stone Age did not end because the world ran out of stones, and that has been true of energy as well.

The enlightened response to climate change is to figure out how to get the most energy with the least emission of greenhouse gases.

The team that brings clean and abundant energy to the world will benefit humanity more than all of history's saints, heroes, prophets, martyrs, and laureates combined.

Not only has chronic undernourishment been in decline, but so have catastrophic famines

Things that can't go on forever can go on much longer than you think.