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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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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
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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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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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Communication is the key for any global business.
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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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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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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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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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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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