Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere.
. . . there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.
The new course we're on at Interface. . . is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.
I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.
I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.
Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.
I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.