Top 100 Quotes About Sustainability
#1. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.
John Replogle
#2. This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.
Lakshmi Mittal
#3. Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimited, and therefore, it is imperative that we are able to determine the sustainability and effectiveness of the causes we support. In so doing, we can ensure that our resources are put to the best use.
Vincent Tan
#4. If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.
Yehuda Berg
#5. 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
#6. This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.
Najib Razak
#7. In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
Mary Roach
#8. In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
Bertrand Piccard
#9. Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.
Jochen Zeitz
#10. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
Thomas Perez
#11. My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.
Lynda Resnick
#12. Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
Norbert Reithofer
#13. Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Helen Clark
#14. Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed
#15. Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.
Rem Koolhaas
#16. Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.
Anthony Albanese
#17. Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.
Noreena Hertz
#18. The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.
Toba Beta
#19. When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
Cameron Sinclair
#20. Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.
Arron Wood
#21. The time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people's well-being. And measures of well-being should be put in a context of sustainability.
Nic Marks
#22. To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an essential part of the quality investment process.
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#23. Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.
David Berman
#24. From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.
Jane Lauder
#26. Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.
Craig Venter
#27. all design decisions should ensure the repeatability and sustainability of the core interaction that the platform enables.
Sangeet Paul Choudary
#29. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
Gustav Nossal
#30. 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
#31. Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
Jim Yong Kim
#32. When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').
Rebecca Aguilar
#35. Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Naveen Jain
#36. Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.
John Friend
#37. If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Jaime Lerner
#38. The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
Kevin McCloud
#39. The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
Albert Allen Bartlett
#41. Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.
Arne Duncan
#42. Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability-whether they are easily measured or not.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#43. Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
Murray Gell-Mann
#44. 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
#46. We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#47. To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene Brown
#48. Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend
Jim MacNeill
#49. For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#50. Implementation of a knowledge based economy is a significant precondition for environmental and social sustainability.
Eraldo Banovac
#51. Education beats at the heart of sustainability.
Andrea Illy
#52. The crucial fact about sustainability is that it is not a micro phenomenon: there can be no such thing as a "sustainable" house, office building, or household appliance, for the same reason that there can be no such thing as a one-person democracy or a single-company economy.
David Owen
#53. 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
#54. Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.
Tom Turner
#55. We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
Jochen Zeitz
#56. Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.
Patricia Velasquez
#57. I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.
Tom Douglas
#58. How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.
Terry Tempest Williams
#59. I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.
Elizabeth Rogers
#60. A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
#61. When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
Janine Benyus
#62. We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Vandana Shiva
#63. As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
Norbert Reithofer
#64. We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.
Karl-Johan Persson
#65. If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.
Jacque Fresco
#66. Sustainability is contingent on the power of creative thinking.
Gerri Russell
#67. Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson
#68. We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
Paul Polman
#69. I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
Edward Burtynsky
#70. Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Bjarke Ingels
#71. The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
Pete Wilson
#72. Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.
Jane Goodall
#73. All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Naveen Jain
#74. Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
Gary Lawrence
#75. It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
Cameron Sinclair
#76. Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely
Alan AtKisson
#77. Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
Jamais Cascio
#78. In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.
Rob Hopkins
#79. Empowerment wasn't defined as a static concept or standalone occurrence, but as an evolving way to rethink entire power structures and value systems, draw on shared skills and knowledge, and endow marginalized communities with tools for economic sustainability.
Andi Zeisler
#80. It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
Vandana Shiva
#81. I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers.
Tom Douglas
#82. His car, he envisioned, would be almost completely recyclable, the death of one car giving birth to part of another in an endless cycle, a concept known as "cradle-to-grave sustainability.
Jason Fagone
#84. Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Jamais Cascio
#85. Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
Ginni Rometty
#86. Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Ban Ki-moon
#87. Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.
Irina Bokova
#88. A society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
David Ehrenfeld
#89. For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.
Ray Anderson
#90. We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.
Horst Rechelbacher
#91. I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
Brandon Boyd
#92. A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace that is controlled, top to bottom, by a few firms and that rewards only scale, not innovation, quality, or sustainability.
Wenonah Hauter
#93. Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
Carl Safina
#94. Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.
Tim Jackson
#95. Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.
Shari Arison
#96. To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.
David Amerland
#97. Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food ... just so they afford something to eat.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#98. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives
Ellen MacArthur
#99. There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
Jaime Lerner
#100. We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
John Anderson
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