Anita Roddick Quotes
Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.
The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
