Anita Roddick Quotes

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It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

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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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If I had to nominate a driving force in my life, I'd plump for passion every time.

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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 freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

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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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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

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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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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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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

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Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

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If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

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The most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

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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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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

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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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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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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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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

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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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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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The most important principle of my life is moving out of the comfort zone. It's not just a junkie fix of experience: this is the majority world; reality.

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A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

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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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Anything which says it can magically take away your wrinkles is a scandalous lie.

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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

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I watch where the cosmetics industry is going and then walk in the opposite direction.

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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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