Economics Quotes - Page 30

• Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

  James Madison

  Men, Ideas, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Business, Responsibility, Blood

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• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

  George Steiner

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

  Bill McKibben

  Business, Fuel, Waste

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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• Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

  Hilary Benn

  Business, Needs, Management

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• A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

  Neil Tierney

  Business, Design, Management

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• Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Cutting, Opportunity

  "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Business, Design, Environmental

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• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

  David Miliband

  Business, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

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• Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

  Elliot Morley

  Business, Support, Environmental

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• 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

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Impact, Long

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• The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Successful, Opportunity

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• In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Eye, Best Practices

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• A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

  Phil Harding

  Business, Management, Environment

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• Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Opportunity, Climate

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• Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

  Phil Harding

  Business, Cost, Earth

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• The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

  Vandana Shiva

  Business, Technology, Management

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• (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Loss, Guiding Principles

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• A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

  Laozi

  Business, Men, Sound

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• It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

  Phil Harding

  Business, Excellence, Incentives

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• Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

  Richard Branson

  Business, Opportunity, Risk

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• Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

  Albert Einstein

  Business, People, Way

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• I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow

  Horatio Nelson Jackson

  Change, Jobs, Business

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