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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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West Sussex
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More quotes by Anita Roddick
I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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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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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
Anita Roddick
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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