But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Interpretation
Finding a way to earn a living that aligns with your skills can lead to personal freedom and life balance.
Anita Roddick emphasizes the importance of creating a livelihood that is both honorable and fulfilling, suggesting that when individuals leverage their skills to make a living, it not only provides them with financial stability but also a profound sense of freedom. This balance fosters a life that reflects their personal values and aspirations, allowing for greater overall satisfaction and well-being.
In practice
In a speech about entrepreneurship, one might quote Roddick to emphasize the benefits of pursuing a career that aligns with personal values.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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.
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.
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
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