Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. 
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich 
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. 
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? 
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. 
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. 
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. 
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. 
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own. 
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. 
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. 
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. 
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. 
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. 
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. 
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. 
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. 
Don't go to business school. 
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. 
First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible. 
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. 
You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring 
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. 
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. 
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break. 