71 Quotes by Maurice Strong

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.