“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.” LongEnergyTermCompanyProduceBuildingPressureFinancialChiefsBoardsLong TermExecutivesExpensesOfficersEarningFinancial MarketsTakeoversChief Executives Author:J. Irwin Miller
“The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.” FirstsWisdomPoliticsPrinciplesEconomyEconomicProduceBuildingLiberalismSymmetryEconomic Power Author:Louis O. Kelso
“If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.” PeopleIfsGoalProduceBuildingWillingWorkersBurningRescueFirefighterBurning Buildings Book:Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices Source: Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices
“Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.” ThinkingGivingYearsWellsLittlesHelpingNextTalkingEnvironmentFiveOur LivesAirTreeProduceBuildingPaperVoteVery GoodBoatFirmContributionFive YearsLocksGood FriendCarbonNext DayFurnitureProtectiveNaughtyContributingFive Year OldsFootwearVery Good FriendsLock UpToothpicksChopsticks Author:Phillip Adams
“When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsMomentsHelpingHappensTogetherFilmCommunityPiecesProduceBuildingHappeningsPerformancesScriptsHelp MeTranslateLive In The MomentRelaxationExhaustionFilm SetBuilding Something Author:Jonathan Groff
“I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.” WorldWayArtWantedSchoolFormSocialProduceBuildingDecidedArchitectureI RealizedSatisfiedVehicleFulfilledArt SchoolRamifications Author:David Adjaye
“The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing.” YearsFirstsLastsFiveProduceBuildingIntuitionFive YearsReflectingLast Five Years Author:David Adjaye
“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition” MayLittlesRunningSocialSportsGrowthDifferencesSpaceCommonRaceSituationVirtueGroupsProduceBuildingBenefitsCompetitionSpeedDrivenCooperationCompetingCivicsReciprocitySocial CapitalCivic Virtue Author:Eva Cox
“Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat.” NeedsShouldLightEnergyNaturalProduceBuildingHeatGridsNatural Light Author:Christiana Figueres