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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

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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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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Anita Lucia Roddick
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The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
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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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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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Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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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 persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
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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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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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Communication is the key for any global business.
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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