Business Sustainability Quotes

#1. Inaction is no longer acceptable.

Eric Lowitt

#2. I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.

Ray Anderson

#3. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.

Kristen Reed

#4. Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Norbert Reithofer

#5. When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

Cameron Sinclair

#6. The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

Anuj

#7. Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

Naveen Jain

#8. For organisations to become truly sustainable we believe it is essential to create a new organisation model: a more cooperative leader, a new way for people to cooperate inside the organisation and a new way for organisations to be measured by society.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#9. I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.

Ray Anderson

#10. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.

Klaus Schwab

#11. Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

Paul Gibbons

#12. Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

Tom Douglas

#13. Sustainability is about profit ... it is the opportunity of the century

Ben Clarke

#14. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Mark Parker

#15. As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

Jonathon Porritt

#16. It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Jochen Zeitz

#17. I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Michael Caine

#18. I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Sean McDonough

#19. In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

Justin Sane

#20. If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

Eric Lowitt

#21. Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#22. I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

Kathryn Hahn

#23. I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.

Christine Milne

#24. With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

Jamais Cascio

#25. I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

Ned Beauman