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.

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.

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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

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