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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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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 most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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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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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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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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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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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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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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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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