Ray Anderson Quotes

• 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.

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  Beautiful, Hurt, Motivation

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• ...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.

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  Business, Thinking, Organization

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• Siempre defiendo la sostenibilidad desde el punto de vista empresarial. Es muy convincente. Nuestros costes han bajado, no subido. Nuestros productos son los mejores de la historia. Nuestra gente está motivada por un objetivo común más elevado: un espíritu de cuerpo para morirse. Y la buena voluntad del mercado es asombrosa.

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  Business, People, Esprit De Corps

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• El nuevo rumbo que hemos tomado en Interface... es ser pioneros de la próxima revolución industrial: una revolución más respetuosa con la Tierra.

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  Pioneers, Earth, Next

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• What’s the business case for ending life on earth?

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  Earth, Cases

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• "Comply" is not a vision.

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  Visión

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• 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.

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  Empleo, Empresa, Trabajo

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• 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.

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  Profesor, Educación, Enseñanza

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• For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

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  Zero, Responsibility, Years

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• The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."

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  Business, Culture, Looks

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

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  Business, Years, Names

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• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

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  Business, Powerful, Responsibility

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• We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.

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  Business, Smart, Simple

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• We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.

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  Business, War, Oil

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• If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.

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  Business, Lines, Extinction

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