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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You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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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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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
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Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
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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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Travel is like a university without walls.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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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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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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