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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

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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
Anarchist
Breaking
Rules
Creativity
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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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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It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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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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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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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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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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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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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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