What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?
As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world.
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