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"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."

"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."

"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."
