Quotes by Anita Roddick

About Anita Roddick:

Dame Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.
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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.

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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.

Anita Roddick

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.

Anita Roddick

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.

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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

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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.

Anita Roddick

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

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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.

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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.

Anita Roddick

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

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

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

Anita Roddick

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

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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.

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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.

Anita Roddick

Author Bio

  • NameAnita Roddick
  • DescriptionBusiness woman, founder of The Body Shop
  • BornOctober 23, 1942
  • DiedSeptember 10, 2007
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBusinessperson
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire