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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.

Anita Roddick

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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
Science
Product
Ideas
Financial
Good
Service
People
Products
Creativity
Trading
Creating
Buying
Pay
Selling
Business
Innovation

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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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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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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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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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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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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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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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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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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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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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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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