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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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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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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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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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Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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