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The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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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.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
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I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
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There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change travel is like a university without walls.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
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