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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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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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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).
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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.
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