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
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about… — 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
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
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for… — 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
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 you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and… — 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
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
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
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it. — 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
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all… — 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
