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I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Anita Roddick's Popular Quotes

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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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

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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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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

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First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

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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, y…

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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

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My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

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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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