Growth has been the great alleviator of poverty. Growth has been the engine of social mobility. Growth is the key ingredient in the glue that holds our society together.
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Carl Schramm
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commencement 2009, 2009
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
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Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement, 2009, 2009
A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.
speech graduation purpose
John Mackey
Bentley College Commencement 2008, 2008
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Mills College Commencement 1983, 1983