Anita Roddick
England
23 Oct 1942 // 10 Sep 2007
Businesswoman
23 Oct 1942 // 10 Sep 2007
Businesswoman
Business has to be a force for social change. It is not enough to avoid hideous evil - it must, we must, actively do good. If business stays parochial, without moral energy or codes of behaviour, claiming there are no such thing as values, then God help us all. If you think morality is a luxury business can't afford, try living in a world without it.
Speech to the International Forum on GlobalizationTeach-In, Seattle, Washington. 'Trading with Principles' (November 27, 1999)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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