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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

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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
Anita Lucia Perella
Empathy
Pity
Leave
Hope
Social
Sense
Right
Children
Wrongs

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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
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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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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
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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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I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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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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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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