I started The Body Shop in ...

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.
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 Anita Roddick

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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 mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
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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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There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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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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