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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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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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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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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.
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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 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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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