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Anita Roddick

(1942–2007) Businessperson United Kingdom

174 quotes in 945 categories

Anita Roddick’s statements blend business acumen with a deep sense of social responsibility. In these 174 snippets you’ll sense her commitment to ethical practices and her belief that commerce can drive positive change.

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Anita Roddick was a businessperson from the United Kingdom, best known for Business as Unusual.

Quick Facts About Anita Roddick

Born: October 23, 1942
Died: September 10, 2007
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Businessperson
Notable works: Business as Unusual
Spouse: Gordon Roddick

About Anita Roddick

Dame Anita Lucia Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, The Body Shop International Limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of products being tested on animals in some of its products and one of the first to promote fair trade with developing countries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Officer of the Order of the British Empire Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Audubon Medal honorary doctorate of the Open University

Quotes by Anita Roddick

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

Big business

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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

Active

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Travel is like a university without walls.

Inspirational

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Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Business

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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

Communicate

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Being good is good business

Be good

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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Inspirational

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Communication is the key for any global business.

Business

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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Argument

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Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Employee

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I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Bears

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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Driving

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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Business

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Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

Anarchist

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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

Hard

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Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

Creativity

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Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

Believe

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

Bottom

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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.

Function

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

Feels

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

Behaviour

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

Business

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

Connected

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

Believe

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Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so…

Change

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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you…

Activism

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I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all…

Being responsible

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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once…

Beauty

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We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but…

Circumstances

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I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I…

Benefits

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

Concentrating

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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop…

Body

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My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's…

Advice

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Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity…

Business

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

Able

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a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Conscience

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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

Change

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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

Mess

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“If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.”

Mosquito

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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

Billions

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Anita Roddick by topic

Business (69) People (23) Money (22) Ifs (18) Thinking (17) Customer (17) World (16) Want (16) Entrepreneur (16) Company (16) Success (13) Inspirational (12) Life (11) Body (11) Time (10) Love (10) Globalization (10) Body Shop (9) Way (9) Should (9) Shops (9) Leadership (9) Different (9) Believe (9) Looks (8)