Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBEwas a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 October 1942
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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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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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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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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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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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
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But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.