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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.

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
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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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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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
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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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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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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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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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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
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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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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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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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