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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.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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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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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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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'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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