Anita Roddick quotes

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. (Anita Roddick)
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. View quote
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. View quote
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. View quote
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. View quote
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I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. View quote
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. View quote
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. View quote
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. View quote
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Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. View quote
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market. (Anita Roddick)
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. View quote
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. View quote
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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. View quote
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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart. View quote
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. View quote
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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun. View quote
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I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. View quote
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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. View quote
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's. View quote
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? (Anita Roddick)
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. View quote
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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. View quote
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To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality. View quote
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But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth. View quote
Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick

Occupation: English Businesswoman
Born: October 23, 1942
Died: September 10, 2007
Quotes count: 28

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