I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.
Anita RoddickThe Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita RoddickAll through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Anita RoddickIf civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
Anita RoddickYou 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.
Anita Roddick