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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."
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."

"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."

"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
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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."

"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."

"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."
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