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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.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
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The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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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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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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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'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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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
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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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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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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.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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