Quotes of Paul Hawken - somelinesforyou

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The massive inefficiencies of industrialism are not more apparent because they are masked by a financial system that gives improper information. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The massive inefficiencies of industrialism are not more apparent because they are masked by a financial system that gives improper information. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. ”

- Paul Hawken
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