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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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Littlehampton
West Sussex
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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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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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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 you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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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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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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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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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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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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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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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.
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