Anita Roddick
Businesswoman
1942-10-23 – 2007-09-10
Quotes by Anita Roddick
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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Over the past decade... 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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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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