Quotes About Sustainable Business

#1. A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Phil Harding

#2. It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.

Niklas Zennstrom

#3. They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

Mike Marsh

#4. 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

Michael Meacher

#5. I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

Stuart Rose

#6. I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

David Stern

#7. Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#8. We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

Wayne Visser

#9. The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

Eric Ries

#10. The question is not "Can this product be built?" In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?" To

Eric Ries

#11. Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

Howard Schultz

#12. exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.

Eric Ries

#13. Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

Paul Watson

#14. Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

Ha-Joon Chang

#15. We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

Hiroyuki Watanabe

#16. Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

Malcolm Brinded

#17. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

Muhammad Yunus

#18. Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

Sunil Mittal

#19. Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be

Jason Fried

#20. 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

#21. [O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Fritjof Capra

#22. I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

Antony Burgmans

#23. The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.

Satya Nadella

#24. Create the change you seek in the world.
Be an ecopreneur.
Launch your dream green business.

John D. Ivanko

#25. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Stephen Young

#26. It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Paul Achleitner

#27. The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

Vivek Wadhwa

#28. The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness ... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.

Patrice Motsepe

#29. First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?

David J. Anderson

#30. In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

#31. Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.

Narendra Modi

#32. Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

Guilherme Leal

#33. Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

Aaron Patzer

#34. Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

Robert G. Thompson

#35. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

Nico Tortorella

#36. Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Jim Speros

#37. By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

Muhammad Yunus

#38. Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.

Michele Jennae

#39. The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.

Michelle Phan

#40. Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.

Cherie Blair

#41. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

Arianna Huffington