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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

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 entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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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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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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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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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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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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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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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
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There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change travel is like a university without walls.
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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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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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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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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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