Anita Roddick famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Graduation #Thinking

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

#Courage #Courageous #Be Courageous

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

#Meaningful #Kids #Hard Work

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Mother #Strong Women #Thinking

Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business.
-- Anita Roddick

#Hate #Creativity #Successful

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
-- Anita Roddick

#Leadership #Hero #Eye

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

#Responsibility #Greed #Should

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

#Success #Believe #Passion

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Clever #Entrepreneur #Insanity

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

#Business #Thinking #Decision

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

#Success #Answers

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

#Looks #World #Supermodel

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

#Entrepreneur #Different #Standing Out

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Crazy #Believe #People

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Animal #Simple #Age

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

#Wall #Creative

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

#Business #Rights #Practice

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Self #Views #Joy

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

#Shopping #Choices #Moral

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

#Relationship #Kindness #People

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
-- Anita Roddick

#Special #Mediocre

Travel is like a university without walls.
-- Anita Roddick

#Wall #University

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
-- Anita Roddick

#Heart

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
-- Anita Roddick

#Running #Agency #Support

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

#Hell

Be daring. Be first. Be different.
-- Anita Roddick

#Business #Individuality #Different

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

#Business #Ideas #Timing

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

#Ideas #Entrepreneur #Three

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

#Fun #Powerful #Passionate

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
-- Anita Roddick

#Passion #Communicate

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Leadership #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Communication #Passion #People

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

#Children #Empathy #Pity

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Successful #Long #People

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

#Communication #Keys #Organization

Over the past decades...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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Life #Change #Past

Being good is good business
-- Anita Roddick

#Responsibility #Ethics #Good Business

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.
-- Anita Roddick

#Heart #Doors #Creating