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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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Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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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'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
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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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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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 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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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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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 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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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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