Paul Hawken Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Corruption, Change

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Network

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Customer, Situation

• I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Country, Future, Politics

  Tags in Environmental

• In short, industrialism is over.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industrial

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Information, Destruction

• Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Policy, Sense

• Local companies don’t have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Play

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy

• 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

  Topics in Business, Economy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Companies

• 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

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Generation

• Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Change

• That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character and Personality

• 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

  Topics in Economy, Money

  Tags in Growth

• We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in Lose, Losers and Losing

• A local company has more accountability.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Company

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

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Rule

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

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Being, Poverty

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

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

Paul Hawken (24)

Birth:	8th February, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Environmentalist

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