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

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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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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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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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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
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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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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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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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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.
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A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
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