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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

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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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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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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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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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 you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
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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.
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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 think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
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You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
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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.
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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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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
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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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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.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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