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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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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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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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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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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 am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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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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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
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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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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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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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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
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