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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.

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
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