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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
Anita Roddick
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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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The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.
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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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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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You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
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Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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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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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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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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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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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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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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