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Maurice Strong

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


— Maurice Strong


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Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.


— Maurice Strong


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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.


— Maurice Strong


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So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.


— Maurice Strong


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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.


— Maurice Strong


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The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.


— Maurice Strong


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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.


— Maurice Strong


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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.


— Maurice Strong


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We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.


— Maurice Strong


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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.


— Maurice Strong


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About Maurice Strong

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Did you know about Maurice Strong?

was motivated not by the Oil-for-Food investigations but by his sense at the time as Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman Tongsun Park who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U. He retired from the Council in the spring of 2007.

He headed Ontario Hydro one of North America's largest power utilities was national president and chairman of the Extension Committee of the World Alliance of YMCAs and headed American Water Development Incorporated. Strong had his start as an entrepreneur in the Alberta oil patch and was president of Power Corporation of Canada until 1966. He served as a commissioner of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1986 and is recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a leader in the international environmental movement.

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