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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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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We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle
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To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.
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I've got power, I've got influence, and I've got money, but I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to hang around in the company.
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Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
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Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
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You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.