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"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."
"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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"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."
"Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice."
"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."
"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."
"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 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."
"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."
"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
"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 Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
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