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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
Persuades
Communicate
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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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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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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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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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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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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.
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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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Be daring. Be first. Be different.
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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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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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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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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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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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