Paul Hawken Quotes


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. Paul Hawken art 322
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken change 102
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Paul Hawken Luck 87
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken Change 78
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 Uncategorized 76
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 Environmental 75
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 Economy 69
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 Health 66
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. Paul Hawken Environmental 65
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 Time 56
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. Paul Hawken Nature 46
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. Paul Hawken Environmental 37
A local company has more accountability. Paul Hawken Uncategorized 37
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 Uncategorized 36
In short, industrialism is over. Paul Hawken Uncategorized 36
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 Uncategorized 34
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 Business 32
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 Business 32
The bottom line is down where it belongs at the bottom. Paul Hawken Business 31
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. Paul Hawken Uncategorized 31
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 Future 31
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 Uncategorized 30
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. Paul Hawken Uncategorized 25
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 Children 24

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