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Anita Roddick Biography

Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was 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 developing countries.

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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.

Agency, Body, Running, Social, Support, Supports

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Conscience, Incompatible, Profit, Social

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

Creative, Creative Juices, Financially, Flow, Wall

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.

Decade, Forget, Institutions, Money, Past, People

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

Big, Bigs, Business, Love Is, Mentioned, Words Love

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

Business, Force, Fun, Passionate, Powerful

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

Away, Function, Giving, Productively, Wealth

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.

Believe, Big, Deepest, Engage, Leadership, Thinking

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.

Aging, Doe, Lack, Loss, Physical, Suitcases

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

Business, Like Love, Love, Practice, Practices, Thinking

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).

Communication, Growth, Intimacy, Organization, Thing, Worse

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

Activist, Leader, Leaders, Socialist, Thinking, Wealth

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.

Cared, Community, Look, Looks, People, Took

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

Running, Business, Home, Feminine, Act

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Entrepreneur, People, Things, Visionaries

Communication is the key for any global business.

Business, Communication, Communication Is Key, Global, Key, Keys

The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?

Bigs, Craziness, Edge, Stills, Success

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Heart, Humanity, Mother, Truth

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

Communication, Conversation, Creating, Let, Mouths, Word

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.

Body, Control, Fashion, Purse, Want

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