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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
Businessperson
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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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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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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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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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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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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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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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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Communication is the key for any global business.
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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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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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