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

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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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Being good is good business
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
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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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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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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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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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