Anita Roddick

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

— Anita Roddick

The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

— Anita Roddick

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

— Anita Roddick

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

— 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…

— Anita Roddick

The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

— Anita Roddick

“I'm not about turning back the clock or promising some magic elixir of youth. It's an acknowledgment of the fact that as…

— Anita Roddick

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't…

— Anita Roddick

we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought,…

— Anita Roddick

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can…

— Anita Roddick

You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use…

— Anita Roddick

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by…

— Anita Roddick

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…

— Anita Roddick

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't.…

— Anita Roddick

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and…

— Anita Roddick

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are…

— Anita Roddick

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to…

— Anita Roddick

The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll…

— Anita Roddick

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

— Anita Roddick

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

— Anita Roddick

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

— Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

— 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

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

— Anita Roddick

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the…

— Anita Roddick

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is…

— Anita Roddick

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

— 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