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.
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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.
If the President does it, it can't be illegal.
My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
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