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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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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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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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Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
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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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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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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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It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
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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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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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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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With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.
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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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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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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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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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If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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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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