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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

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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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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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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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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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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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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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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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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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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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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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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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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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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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we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
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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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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
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