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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

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 leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
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To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.
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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 movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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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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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
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