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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

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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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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

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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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Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

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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 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.

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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

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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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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

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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.

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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

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