I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.

If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Advertising is the life of trade.

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans. (on reaching the Champions League final)

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.