Top 100 Quotes About Anita Roddick
#1. Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
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#2. The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
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#3. A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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#4. Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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#8. Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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#9. Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
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#10. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
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#11. There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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#12. 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.
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#13. To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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#14. If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
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#15. I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
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#16. If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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#17. I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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#18. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.
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#19. My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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#22. The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
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#23. The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
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#24. How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
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#25. Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
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#30. You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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#31. If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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#32. Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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#33. I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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#34. Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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#35. 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.
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#37. I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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#38. Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
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#39. I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.
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#42. If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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#43. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.
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#44. Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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#45. When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
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#46. The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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#47. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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#48. When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
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#49. Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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#50. You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
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#51. There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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#52. If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
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#54. The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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#55. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
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#56. If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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#57. We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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#62. If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
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#63. Communication is the key for any global business.
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#64. There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
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#65. Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.
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#66. The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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#67. Mess with nature and it will mess right back ...
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. The function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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#75. All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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#76. Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.
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#77. A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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#78. If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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#79. 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.
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#80. To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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#81. I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
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#82. We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
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#83. We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.
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#84. If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
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#85. Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Over the past decade ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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#88. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
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#89. There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
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#90. I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
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#91. You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
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#92. We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
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#93. 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.
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#94. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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#95. You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
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#96. 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.
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#97. I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
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#98. People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.
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#99. I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
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#100. I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
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