Anita Roddick Quotes

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

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.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

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

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.