"Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that itâ€™s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business."

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Source : Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.159, Penguin

Yvon Chouinard

#Healthy Quotes #Arguing Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.”

Source : Ian Stewart (2007). “Letters to a Young Mathematician”, p.79, Basic Books
“If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.”

Source : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.
“One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.”

Source : Danica Patrick talks about the Indy 500, www.newsday.com.
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
“Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.”
“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”

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