Indra Nooyi Quotes

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

We drive our business as a cause, one where we power a greener tomorrow.

A lot of U.S. businesses are really going into the agenda of sustainability, and some are making their own commitments in emissions reductions in their own operations.

We can help companies committed to addressing global challenges such as climate change.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

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.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.