Whatever you do, be different ...

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.
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.
 Anita Roddick

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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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.
 Anita Roddick
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
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
 Anita Roddick
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.
 Anita Roddick
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.
 Anita Roddick