It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

- Paul Gilding

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

- Paul Gilding

When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natu…

- Paul Gilding

If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster…

- Paul Gilding

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

- Paul Gilding

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

- Paul Gilding

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

- Paul Gilding

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

- Paul Gilding

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

- Paul Gilding