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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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Daring
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Different
Meaningful
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Justice
Kids
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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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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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
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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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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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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
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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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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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