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Be daring. Be first. Be different.

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
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Individuality
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I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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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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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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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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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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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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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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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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