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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 body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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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."

"The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away."

"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."

"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."

"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."

"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."

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
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