I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of working for a company that values community and purpose over mere profit.
Anita Roddick expresses a desire to engage with a company that has a strong commitment to its community, highlighting the need for employees to find meaning and belief in their work. This sentiment reflects the growing importance of corporate social responsibility and suggests that individuals seek more than just financial stability; they yearn for a workplace that aligns with their values and contributes positively to society.
In practice
Used in a job interview to express the desire for a value-driven workplace.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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