Anita Roddick

The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at…

— Anita Roddick

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and…

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

— Anita Roddick

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face…

— Anita Roddick

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only…

— Anita Roddick

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in…

— Anita Roddick

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And…

— Anita Roddick

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the…

— Anita Roddick

It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the…

— Anita Roddick

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is…

— Anita Roddick

I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The…

— Anita Roddick

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to…

— Anita Roddick

business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments.…

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon,…

— Anita Roddick

Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and…

— Anita Roddick

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more…

— Anita Roddick

The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns…

— Anita Roddick

A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It.…

— Anita Roddick

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to…

— Anita Roddick

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

— 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

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or…

— Anita Roddick

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This…

— Anita Roddick

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also…

— Anita Roddick

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the…

— Anita Roddick

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans,…

— Anita Roddick

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller…

— Anita Roddick

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of…

— 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

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

— 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

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion…

— Anita Roddick

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies.…

— Anita Roddick

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

— Anita Roddick

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

— Anita Roddick

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and…

— Anita Roddick

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from…

— Anita Roddick

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private…

— Anita Roddick