Anita Roddick Quotes

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

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

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

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

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

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

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

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

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

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

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

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

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

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

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

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

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

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

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

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

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

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

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 for it.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

Being good is good business

Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

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

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

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

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

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

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

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

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