Anita Roddick Quotes
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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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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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).
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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
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I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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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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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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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 are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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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.
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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 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.
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