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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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