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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

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
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
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With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
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The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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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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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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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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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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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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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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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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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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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
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