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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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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."

"Innovation lies in a creative mind."

"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."

"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."

"Start the conversion process and birth your products."

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

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

"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."

"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."
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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."

"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."

"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."

"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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