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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

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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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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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 word love is never mentioned in big business.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
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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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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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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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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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