top of page
Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Time

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Business

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability."

Government

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."

Corporations

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Environment

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."

Technology

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Life

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Money

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"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."

Kids

Quote_1.png
Paul Hawken
"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."

Change

bottom of page