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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
Passion
Persuades
Communicate

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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
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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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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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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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I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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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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The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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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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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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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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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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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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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
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