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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
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Anita Lucia Perella
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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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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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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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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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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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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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The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
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It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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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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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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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 don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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