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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

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
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Financially
Juice
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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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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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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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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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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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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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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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Being good is good business
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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