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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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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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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works.
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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 traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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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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There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change travel is like a university without walls.
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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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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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The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).
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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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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
Anita Roddick
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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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