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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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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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What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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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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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
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I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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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 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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A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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