36 Quotes by Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman and social activist, known for founding The Body Shop, a cosmetics and skincare company that became a global success and a pioneer in ethical and environmentally sustainable business practices. Born in Littlehampton, England, in 1942, Roddick opened the first Body Shop store in Brighton in 1976 and soon expanded the company to include hundreds of stores around the world. She was a vocal advocate for causes such as animal rights, environmentalism, and fair trade, and her company was known for its commitment to using natural and ethically sourced ingredients. Roddick passed away in 2007, but her legacy as a businesswoman and a social activist continues to inspire generations of entrepreneurs and activists. (Bio)
Anita Roddick Quotes
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. (Meaning)
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality. (Meaning)
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.
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.
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
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.
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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.
Being good is good business
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
― Anita Roddick Quotes
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Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
