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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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