Paul Hawken Quotes

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

Paul Hawken
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

Paul Hawken
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

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If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.

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We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP [gross domestic product].

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Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Paul Hawken
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?

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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.

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What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Paul Hawken
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.

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

Paul Hawken