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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

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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
Mediocre
Special
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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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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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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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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.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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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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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.
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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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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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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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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change travel is like a university without walls.
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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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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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