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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.

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
Communication
Leadership
Vision
Open
Passion
Work
Persuasively
Always
Communicated
People
Clearly

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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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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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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
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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 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
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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.
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We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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