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The word love is never mentioned in big business.

Anita Roddick

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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
Love
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Bigs
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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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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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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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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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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