Anita Roddick Quotes

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

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

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.

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.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

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.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

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.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

You 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.

Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

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

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.