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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

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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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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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 think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
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Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
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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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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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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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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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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