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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

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
Face
Faces
Spirit
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Inconsequential
Cream
Selling

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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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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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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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