Let My People Go Surfing

Only by confronting the problems and trying to solve them yourself will you prevent them from happening again in another form.

The key to confronting and truly solving any problem is to continue to ask enough questions to get past all the symptoms and reach the actual cause,

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change. You might think that

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.

a wise leader knows that you also move when everything is going too well; everyone is laid-back, lazy, and happy. If you don’t move now, then you may not be able to move when the real crisis happens.

the cure for depression is action

Evil always wins if we do nothing.

inch of productive soil. In the Midwest two bushels

In fact, the government’s indicator for the health of the economy is the GDP (gross domestic product), which measures the economic health of a nation by the value of the quantity of goods produced, not by the cleanliness and availability of air and water, the health of soil, the biodiversity of ecosystems, or the temperature of oceans—the elements that support and sustain the natural resources necessary to build products these corporations sell. Rather, it has become a race to squeeze the last drop of oil out of the earth at all costs including the potential and too often realized risks of hazardous spills, contamination of nearby aquifers, and toxic air pollution.

I don’t really believe that humans are evil; it is just that we are not very intelligent animals.

We are certainly not smart enough to foretell the long-term results of our everyday actions.

We need to recognize that most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance and that we cannot afford to go about blindly doing unnecessary damage simply because we lack curiosity.

We wanted to do the right thing, we didn’t want to cause unnecessary harm, but in the beginning we hardly even knew what questions to ask.

admitting that I caused the mess and therefore I should clean it up is the best way to start living responsibly.

There’s only one way to lead, and that’s by being in front and leading by example.

I believe the way toward mastery of any endeavor is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge. The more you know, the less you need.

live more simply, it won’t be an impoverished life but one richer in all the ways that really matter.