Sustainable Economy Quotes

#1. Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.

Jochen Zeitz

#2. Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

Keith Ellison

#3. It is clear that corporate America has an obligation to create a fairer, more equitable, more sustainable economy for no other reason than self-preservation.

John J. Sarno

#4. For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

Ed Begley Jr.

#5. Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Duane Elgin

#6. The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Stella Gibbons

#7. Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Alan Greenspan

#8. 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

#9. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan

#10. To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

#11. 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

#12. Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

Alan Brazil

#13. The New Economy brings the need to tap people's curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#14. You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Walter Isaacson

#15. The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.

Mark Leibovich

#16. the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries, and the waste created by the global economy.

Pope Francis

#17. The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.

Tony Blair

#18. It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

Michael Jackson

#19. The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

Lee Myung-bak

#20. Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.

Robert Zoellick

#21. Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

Jane Fonda

#22. As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

Wes Jackson

#23. Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#24. Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

Mohamed El-Erian

#26. 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

#27. Without doubt, our inability to design and implement a sustainable economic framework has resulted to our present ranking on the globalization index; a precious market to the productive countries.

Tony Osborg

#28. Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

David Cameron

#29. These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.

Noam Chomsky

#30. Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

Jeff Goodell

#31. Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#32. I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

Al Gore

#33. This is really what the White House is all about. It's the "People's House." It's a place that is steeped in history, but it's also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that's why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can.

Michelle Obama

#34. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Bill Gates