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We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

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
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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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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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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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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
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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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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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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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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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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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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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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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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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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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