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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

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
Anarchist
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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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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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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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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Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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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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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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People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
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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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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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