Jochen Zeitz Quotes
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
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Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.
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Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.
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I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.
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I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
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We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
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In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.
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It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!
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I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.
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I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.
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When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.
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Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.
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Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
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I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
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I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!
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Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.
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If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.
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Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.
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The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.
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The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
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We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
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I just don't like to talk about the past.
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I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.
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We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.