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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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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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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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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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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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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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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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Being good is good business
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The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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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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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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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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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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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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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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Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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