Walking the Talk Quotes

“That is important, because, ultimately, this is about judgment. Business is all about judgment.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“They are creative destroyers; they lean on the system in order to outperform it—a highly desirable quality in a competitive and quickly changing world.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“By capitalizing on these assets, a company stands to gain customer success, brand strength, first-mover advantage,”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“A vision of sustainable development as opportunity rather than burden is proving to be a source of competitive advantage.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“corporate social responsibility (CSR”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“Thus smart CEOs not only are going to orient their companies toward sustainability, but also are going to try to orient society toward sustainability.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“full-cost pricing and economic instruments to discourage waste and pollution.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“It means producing more (goods and services and value-added) with less (resources, waste, and pollution).”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“However, business is only one of three pillars of society, the other two being civil society and government.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“Earth Summit: Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment (Schmidheiny 1992”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“In fact, given the perversities of subsidies on such things as water and carbon-based energy, or the lack of ownership of certain crucial resources such as deep-sea fisheries, markets can send exactly the wrong signals”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“gains for business did not necessarily have to be losses for the environment, and, again, vice versa.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“In 1993, a group of ICC member companies formed the World Industry Council for the Environment (WICE), which, in the beginning of 1995, merged with the BCSD to form the WBCSD”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“The quotation at the beginning of this chapter says that sustainable development is about changes in resource exploitation, investments, technological development”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development

“We are now more convinced than ever that companies can do themselves good through doing right for society at large and the environment.”
― Jr Charles O Holliday, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development