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

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I Started The Body Shop In 1976

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.

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