Best 155 quotes of Anita Roddick on MyQuotes

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.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

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.

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.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

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.

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.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

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

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Being good is good business

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

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.

business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

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

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.

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

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

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

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

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

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.

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

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.

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

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.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

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.

I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

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

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

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

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 new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.

I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.

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.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

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

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.