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A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Littlehampton
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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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Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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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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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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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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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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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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Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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