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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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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"

"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."

"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."

"We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different."

"It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."

"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

"Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes."
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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."

"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in."

"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."

"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."

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

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

"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."

"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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