Esg Quotes Quotes

“Ultimately, incentive structures and systems drive ESG investing, which can be disingenuous. Structurally, public market investors continue to focus on the incentives which maximize their financial returns, even while taking certain ESG inputs into account in their portfolio allocations. Only by regulating and incentivizing the actual outcomes might investors alter their investment strategies towards new rewards based on ESG outputs.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“High ESG standards are especially important in large municipal projects.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“City Planners, collectively, play a huge role in societies’ ability to steward capital wisely. With most of humanity living in cities, their efficiency or lack there of has huge implications for how people interact with resources. And from an ESG perspective, the condition of civilization can be largely measured by the interactions between people and resources”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“ESG is more than a suite of metrics and statistical measurements. ESG begins with the habits, purchasing decisions, business choices, and lifestyles of individuals and groups of individuals.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“ESG boils down to the collective small decisions of individuals just as much as it boils down to the economy shifting decisions of large companies.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In order to fully embrace ESG standards, businesses need to think holistically about their entire value web.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“To survive in this century, every company must be on a continual journey of transformation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ESG must be integrated into Business Transformation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“From an investment perspective, every bond should be a green bond.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Human activity should not only protect the environment, but actively improve it.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Corporate Governance, in this century, must include positioning the company as a leader in ESG to gain a competitive edge.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“To maximize ESG performance in today’s economy, employing advanced technologies is a non-negotiable for companies. Effective software is becoming critical to compliance.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If diversity and inclusion initiatives are approached as a form of charity, it will result in some people benefiting at the expense of others. Instead, diversity and inclusion should be approached as a way to expand capacity and as a hedge against risk. If you look at nature, that’s what diversity does… expand capacity and hedge against risk.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“In business, as is the case in nature, circularity amplifies profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“The greatest things in civilization were all made possible by the wise stewardship of Capital. And all of the problems of the world have as their root cause a misuse or waste of capital. Therefore the primary concern for every business and every human endeavor, is the wise stewardship of Capital. And this is especially true for every Chief Sustainability Officer.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To every Chief Sustainability Officer out there, you have to realize that ESG boils down to managing different kinds of Capital. As Chief Sustainability Officer, you are really the Chief Steward of Capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion should be a top priority of every Chief People Officer — not as a matter of charity, but of corporate preservation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Whenever expenses become greater than income, it is inevitable that liabilities will become greater than assets.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Risk is amplified if the business doesn’t have clear title to its assets.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Leadership is an important part of ESG. Both the S and the G in ESG have a strong correlation to leadership.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“How is transformation built into your company’s corporate structure? This is an important question to answer if you want the company to remain relevant throughout market changes.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When managers use ESG frameworks to inform choices, risk is inherently minimized.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Now, more than ever, the world needs transformational leaders — not to cultivate change for it’s own sake, but to lead through the inevitable evolutions in business and human society.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Corporate Social Responsibility is a company’s commitment to its stakeholders — to conduct business in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. At scale, and with mass buy-in, society at whole is the beneficiary of Multiplicative Value Effects.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“For Cities, the ability to treat its residents equitably is a plus for the S in ESG.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Bond issuers that prioritize ESG standards may improve their access to financing while lowering their cost of capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“While directly serving their customers, companies should indirectly serve the interests of society by taking responsibility for the holistic impact of their activities. Its simply a more broad view of value creation. This is what ESG is all about. With this perspective, the goal is still Profit — Profit for all stakeholders, to varying degrees and in varying capacities of course. This holistic view of profit produces what I call Multiplicative Value Effects, or, win-win scenarios as opposed to win-lose scenarios where the prerequisite of a companies win is a loss for societal stakeholders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth