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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.

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
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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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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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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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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.
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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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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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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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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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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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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
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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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