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“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.”

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Book:The Heart of a Leader

Source: The Heart of a Leader

“Hire character. Train skill.”

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Author:Peter Schutz

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”

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Author:James Stewart

“We always plan too much and always think too little.”

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Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.”

“Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.”

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Author:Lionel Tiger

“Good economics is good politics.”

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Author:Paul Keating

“You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.”

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Author:Ahmed Zaki Yamani

“In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.”

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Author:Martin Sorrell

“If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.”

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Author:Christina Stead

“A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”

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Author:Lester Thurow

“Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.”

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Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

“In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.”

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Author:Lachlan Murdoch

“The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.”

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Author:Davis McCaughey

“... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.”

“You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.”

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Author:Graeme Samuel

“If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.”

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Author:Graeme Samuel

“One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.”

“It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.”

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Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.”

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Author:Simon McKeon

“Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.”

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Author:Frank Lowy

“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.”

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Author:Stewart Udall

“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.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.”

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Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life”

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Author:James C. Collins

“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle”

“Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need”

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Author:Hilary Benn

“A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!”

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Author:Neil Tierney

“Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.”

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Author:Tom DeLay

“Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply”

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Author:David Miliband

“In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously”

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Author:David Miliband

“Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system”

“Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors”

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Author:Michael Meacher

“Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us”

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Author:Margaret Beckett

“The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by”

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Author:Margaret Beckett

“In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company”

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

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Author:Phil Harding

“Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat”

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Author:Tom DeLay

“Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge”

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Author:Phil Harding

“The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss”

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Author:Peter Drucker

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