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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.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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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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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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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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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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Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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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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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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