QUOTES
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.
Businesses
have the power to do good. That's why The Body Shop's Mission Statement opens
with the overriding commitment, 'To dedicate our business to the pursuit of social
and environmental change.' We use our stores and our products to help communicate
human rights and environmental issues.
The
end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
For
me, campaigning is about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive
practises or human rights abuses."
Join
me: I want to connect with people who share my outrage over the menace of global
business practices, and who, like me, are seeking solutions. But I also want to
tell -- and hear, from you -- stories that lift our spirits, that celebrate how
glorious our planet is. Outrage and celebration -- let's run this gamut together.
If
you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
"I
hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social
wrongs"
"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."
"I
am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful
businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their
people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
Be
nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle.
If
you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito
in the room.
