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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"Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling."

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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 think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

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""If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.""

- Anita Roddick

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"I wake up every morning thinking…this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There’s no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal."

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