It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don’t. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it’s working.
I don’t want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don’t want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There’s more to my life than that.
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.
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
Being good is good business.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
Be daring. Be first. Be different.
We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
If I can’t do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
I’m an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn’t part of my thinking.
If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.