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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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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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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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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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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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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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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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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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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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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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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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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.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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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.
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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.
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Being good is good business
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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