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

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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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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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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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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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The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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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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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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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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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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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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