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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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More quotes by Anita Roddick
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
Anita Roddick
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
Anita Roddick
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.
Anita Roddick
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.
Anita Roddick
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
Anita Roddick
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
Anita Roddick
The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
Anita Roddick
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
Anita Roddick
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Anita Roddick
Being good is good business
Anita Roddick
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
Anita Roddick
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Anita Roddick
a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
Anita Roddick
People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
Anita Roddick
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.
Anita Roddick
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
Anita Roddick
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.
Anita Roddick
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
Anita Roddick
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.
Anita Roddick
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
Anita Roddick