Quotes About Sustainability

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

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

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.