Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.
Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The ‘simple act of planting a tree’ not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet.
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.
Being a good human being is good business.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.