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

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.

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

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

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

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

We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.