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Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
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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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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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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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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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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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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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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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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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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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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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