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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.