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I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

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
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First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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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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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 great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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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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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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