Management Quotes - Page 29

• 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, Environment, Economics

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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, Economics

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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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• I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

  David Miliband

  Business, School, Worry

  "We nearly threw it away. We must be more radical". Interview with Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2006.

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• Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity

  Phil Harding

  Running, Business, Opportunity

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• The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Business, Successful, World

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• The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

  Phil Harding

  Business, Two, Greed

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• Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

  Richard Branson

  Beach, Business, Mean

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• Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Strong, Business, Leader

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• Yelling is a form of publishing

  Margaret Atwood

  Business, Yelling, Economics

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• Data is great, but strategy is better

  Steven Sinofsky

  Business, Data, Strategy

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