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One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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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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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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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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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
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If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
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The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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