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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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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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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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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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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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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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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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 only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
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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.
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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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