Anita Roddick Quotes - Page 5

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• You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Lds, Views

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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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  Powerful, Ladders, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.

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  Loss, Doe, Suitcases

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• Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

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  Hate, Entrepreneur, Tears

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.

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  Jobs, Support, Community

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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  Leadership, Eye, Looks

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

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  Art, Creative, Looks

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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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  Voice, Alive, Way

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• I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

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  Believe, Cynical, Marketing

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• The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.

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  Successful, Growth, Needs

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• I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

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  Running, Business, School

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• The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

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  Running, Agency, Support

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• It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

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  Jobs, Creativity, Mean

  "Gina Romero on Women Entrepreneurs on the Web (WeOW)" by Christel Quek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.

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  Mistake, Perfect, Trying

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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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  Powerful, Business, Government

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.

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  Men, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

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  People, Anecdotes, Needs

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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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  Business, Making Money, Profit

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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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  Money, Past, People

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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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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  Morning, Men, Technology

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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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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  Fashion, Body, Want

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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  Craziness, Bigs, Stills

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• The word love is never mentioned in big business.

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  Love Is, Bigs, Words Love

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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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  Hands, Practice, Design

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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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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  Believe, Ninety Nine, Way

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