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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

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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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
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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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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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Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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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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I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
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business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.
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