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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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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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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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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.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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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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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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There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works.
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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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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.
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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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