When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments.… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
