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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
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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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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.
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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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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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