We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

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.

Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.