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Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

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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
Responsiveness
Agility
Speed
Keys
Future
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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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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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
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Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
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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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Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
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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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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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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
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The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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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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We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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