English - Businesswoman | October 23, 1942 - September 10, 2007
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Anita Roddick
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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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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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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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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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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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