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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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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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Make
Things
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Vision
Happen
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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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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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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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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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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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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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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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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If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by feminine pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking
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