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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Anita Roddick

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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
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Passion
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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
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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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There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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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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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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