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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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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The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
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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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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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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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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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The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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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 don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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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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