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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

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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Market
Everything
Heart

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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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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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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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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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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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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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