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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

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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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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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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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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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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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
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It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
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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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It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
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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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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
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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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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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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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