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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

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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
Persuades
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
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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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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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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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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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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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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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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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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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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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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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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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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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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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