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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

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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
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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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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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
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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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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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