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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
Mess
Nature
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Right

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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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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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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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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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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
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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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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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