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You Persuade People With Passion, So You've Got To Have A Product Or Service You Feel Emotionally Charged About. Then You Can Tell Stories About It That Will Inspire Others.

I Started The Body Shop In 1976 Simply To Create A Livelihood For Myself And My Two Daughters, While My Husband, Gordon, Was Trekking Across The Americas. I Had No Training Or Experience And My Only Business Acumen Was Gordon's Advice To Take Sales Of £300 A Week. Nobody Talks Of Entrepreneurship As Survival, But That's Exactly What It Is And What Nurtures Creative Thinking.

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You've Got To Be Hungry - For Ideas, To Make Things Happen And To See Your Vision Made Into Reality

Internationalism Means That We Can See Into The Dark Corners Of The World, And Hold Those Companies To Account When They Are Devastating Forests Or Employing Children As Bonded Labour. Globalization Is The Complete Opposite, Its Rules Pit Country Against Country And Workers Against Workers In The Blinkered Pursuit Of International Competitiveness.