“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” DiesBusinessQualityEconomicsManagementCompromiseCommodity Author:Gary Hirshberg
“Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons” MenPersonsHumanityCommunityBusinessEducationParticularBearsTrainingEconomicsMarkManagement Book:Human Work Source: Human Work
“Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless” DealsBusinessEconomicsManagementFinanceUseless Author:Mark Carney
“Happiness does not require an expanding economy” DoeBusinessEconomyEconomicsManagementExpanding Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“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.” RealEarthBusinessEconomyPlanetsEconomicsManagementPrintCheaperBail Author:Paul Hawken
“"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon” BelieveMeanLongStillsWaterPerfectBusinessEconomicDependsPoliticianMassEconomicsUltimateManagementClimateGreedClimate ChangeStormOilDisappearForestsRecoveryHorizonRegulationContinuingBankersRecessionsDisruptionShortageMigrationEconomic RecoveryOil PricePerfect Storm Author:Jonathon Porritt
“The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency” RunningUnderstandingSimpleBusinessEconomicSucceedAnxietyStandardsCapitalismEconomicsManagementGenuineChiefsVisibleEmployeeExecutivesManifestDecencyTaxpayersDownturnChief ExecutivesEconomic Downturn Author:Robert Peston
“Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market” PeopleIdeasHappensBusinessEconomyGrowingSeeingSkillsLowsResourcesEconomicsManagementThings HappenCarbonMake Things HappenTechnical Skills Author:Tom DeLay
“Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century” OpportunityBusinessCenturyEconomicsManagementProfitSustainability Author:Ben Clarke
“Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way” ThinkingKnowsWayWantShouldPastLinesBusinessKnow HowClearRiskMonthsDirectorsEconomicsResponsibleManagementClimateClimate ChangePlanningWeatherBoardsReachingInvestorsExposedFreakKoreaTransparentPresentingBangladeshBoard Of DirectorsHungaryPlanning AheadTesco Author:Terry Leahy