Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
My mother’s bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world’s trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
You persuade people with passion, so you’ve got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature – outsiders with a work ethic.
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism – that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I’d name passion every time.
Entrepreneurs are visionaries – they see things other people don’t see.
I’d have opened a bloody library if I’d wanted to be quiet.
We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect – it isn’t possible to be perfect – but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it’s best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.