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Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

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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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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
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I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
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With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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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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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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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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