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

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

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

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.