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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

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
Heroes
Organization
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Make
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Employees
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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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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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You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
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business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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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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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.
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