Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBEwas a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 October 1942
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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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A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
hero organization want
Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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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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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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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 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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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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Mess with nature and it will mess right back ...
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.