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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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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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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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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.
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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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.
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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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.
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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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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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