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Richelieu Dennis

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There's something about 'Essence' that we more than like - that we really love: the history of the community, the forward-thinking leadership. - Richelieu Dennis
#Community
#History
#Leadership
#Love
Our mission is to serve women of color and serve them deeply. - Richelieu Dennis
#Color
#Mission
#Serve
#Them
#Women
There's no need for women and moms to go through this world alone without the help and the support from the businesses that do business in our communities and that generate success from the women in our community. That should not be happening. - Richelieu Dennis
#Alone
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#Success
#Women
#World
One of the hardest things to do is to get capital. That's where we, as black business, struggles. And the other place we struggle is scale, and because we don't have an access to capital, we cannot scale. - Richelieu Dennis
#Black
#Business
#Cannot
#Place
#Struggle
A critical lesson I learned is that we have to make sure all our employees, particularly new hires, have a full immersion in our culture. - Richelieu Dennis
#Critical
#Culture
#Lesson
#Make
#New
My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa. - Richelieu Dennis
#Company
#Father
#Government
#He
#Mother
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we had a full-blown civil war in both Liberia and Sierra Leone. I couldn't go home. - Richelieu Dennis
#Enough
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#War
I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up at a time when there was a lot of civil unrest in both countries, so when something would happen in Liberia, we'd go to Sierra Leone, and when something would happen in Sierra Leone, we'd go back to Liberia. We moved to save our lives. - Richelieu Dennis
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As a kid growing up, one of the brands I thought was tremendous was Karl Kani... and I don't see Karl Kani today. I want to see SheaMoisture tomorrow. - Richelieu Dennis
#Growing Up
#See
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Want
My grandmother was a single mother. My mother's a single mother, and I have four daughters. I've experienced firsthand the challenges of what it is to be a single mother. And many of those challenges are challenges that, if we all just got together and worked together and thought about it together, we could help solve. - Richelieu Dennis
#Challenges
#Four
#Help
#Mother
#Together
Our forward track must focus on including everyone, embracing everyone, and celebrating the beauty - and normalcy - of everyone's differences. - Richelieu Dennis
#Beauty
#Differences
#Everyone
#Focus
Our love of people has always been our motivation and our competitive advantage. - Richelieu Dennis
#Always
#Love
#Motivation
#Our
#People
I am proud of all of our products across every category we're in - hair, bath and body, face, cosmetics, baby, and men's - because they reflect the highest quality natural, organic, fair trade, and community commerce-sourced ingredients available. - Richelieu Dennis
#Community
#Face
#I Am
#Men
#Quality
When you're doing something that hasn't been done before, and you're trying to build something that hasn't been built before on a platform that hasn't existed before, you are going to make mistakes. The biggest advice that I can give is to not run away from issues when they occur. Own it. Your consumers deserve that. - Richelieu Dennis
#Advice
#Deserve
#Doing
#Mistakes
#Trying
Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen. - Richelieu Dennis
#Company
#Consumer
#See
#Space
#Will
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