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"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

"Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need."

"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!"

"When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you."

"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"

"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."

"We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!"

"I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules."

"Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off."

"Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need."
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"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."

"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."

"Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement."

"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."

"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."

"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
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