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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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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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The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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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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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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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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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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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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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
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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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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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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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