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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
Daring
Individuality
Business
Firsts
First
Different

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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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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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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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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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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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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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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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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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