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
believe ninety-nine way
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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Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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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 really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
leadership hero eye
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.
looks world supermodel
There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
wall creative
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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Travel is like a university without walls.
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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?
love-is bigs big-business
The word love is never mentioned in big business.
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.