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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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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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Communication is the key for any global business.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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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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A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
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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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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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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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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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