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The function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
— Anita Roddick
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.
— Anita Roddick
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.
— Anita Roddick
Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
— Anita Roddick
You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
— Anita Roddick
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
— Anita Roddick
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
— Anita Roddick
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
— Anita Roddick
Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.
— Anita Roddick
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
— Anita Roddick
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
— Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
— Annie Lennox
The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
— Annie Lennox
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.
— Anita Roddick
People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
— Anita Roddick
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
— Anita Roddick
Communication is the key for any global business.
— Anita Roddick
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
— Anita Roddick
There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
— Anita Roddick
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
— Anita Roddick
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
— Anita Roddick
Be daring. Be first. Be different.
— Anita Roddick
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
— Anita Roddick
Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
— Anita Roddick
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.
— Anita Roddick
Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
— Anita Roddick
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.
— Anita Roddick
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
— Anita Roddick
Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
— Anita Roddick
The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
— Anita Roddick
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
— Anita Roddick
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
— Anita Roddick
I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
— Anita Roddick
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
— Anita Roddick
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
— Anita Roddick
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
— Anita Roddick
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.
— Anita Roddick
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
— Anita Roddick
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.
— Anita Roddick
If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
— Anita Roddick
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
— Anita Roddick
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
— Anita Roddick
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
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.
— Anita Roddick
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
— Anita Roddick
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
— Anita Roddick
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
— Anita Roddick
A social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
— Anita Roddick
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
— Anita Roddick
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
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
— Anita Roddick
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
— Anita Roddick
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
— Anita Roddick
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
— Anita Roddick
We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
— Anita Roddick
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
— Anita Roddick
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
— Anita Roddick
If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
— Anita Roddick
If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
— Anita Roddick
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
— Anita Roddick
Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded
— Anita Roddick
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
— Anita Roddick
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.
— Anita Roddick
You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
— Anita Roddick
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
— Anita Roddick
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
— 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.
— Anita Roddick
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
— Anita Roddick
Mess with nature and it will mess right back ...
— Anita Roddick
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
— Anita Roddick
I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
— Anita Roddick
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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The word love is never mentioned in big business.
— Anita Roddick
Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
— Anita Roddick
Being good is good business
— Anita Roddick