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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

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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People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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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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The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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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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Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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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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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
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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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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
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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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