Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Meaning of the quote

Businesses should help solve issues, not create new problems. They should work to make things better, not worse. This quote means that companies and organizations should focus on being part of the solution, rather than being part of the problem.

About Dennis Weaver

Dennis Weaver was an acclaimed American actor best known for his roles as Marshal Matt Dillon’s deputy Chester Goode on Gunsmoke and Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He also starred in notable films like Duel and Touch of Evil, cementing his legacy as a versatile and talented performer.

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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

I feel responsible; I feel I’ve got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

If you don’t generate tension in the film to begin with… you can’t really make a purse out of a sow’s ear, you know.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Whatever we’ll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you’re not acting on a series, you don’t get the ability to communicate to people.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

We’re the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

It’s not an if – we’re going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they’re interdependent.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

It’s fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

American actor (1924-2006)