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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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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
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Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works.
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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
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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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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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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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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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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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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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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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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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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 don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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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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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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