Anita Roddick Quotes

120 Anita Roddick Quotes (The Body Shop)

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If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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There is a fine line between the delinquent mind of an entrepreneur and that of a crazy person.
Anita Roddick

If you have a company with itsy-bitsy vision, you have an itsy-bitsy company.
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We’d rather close down than test our products on animals.
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It still seems to me cruel and totally unacceptable to sacrifice animals for human vanity.
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A great advantage I had when I started Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
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I want to make things happen…
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Your values in work should be the same as those at home.
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To succeed, you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
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I’ve always thought of travel as a university without walls.
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You have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force.
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The entrepreneur’s dream is almost a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating.
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The difference between a crazy person and the successful entrepreneur is that the latter can convince others to share the vision.
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I’ll never hire anybody from Harvard Business School.
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Ideas have wings.
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‘Trade Not Aid’ is a way of trading honourably with indigenous communities in disadvantaged areas – not changing the environment or the culture.
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If I can’t do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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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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There are only two ways to raising money: the hard way and the very hard way.
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We must put pack into society what we have taken out.
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The trouble with society is the power of the penis.
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The Body Shop fosters a spirit of experimentation and a creative climate in which we produce new products out of old ingredients. We are not afraid to reach into the past, or look at the practices of other cultures, in order to improve what we have here and now – and in the future.
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If you think morality is a luxury business can’t afford, try living in a world without it.
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Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
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We have turned our attention to men because we feel that they need it, although some of them may not know it yet.
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Business has to be a force for social change.
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The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement I feel.
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We don’t so much have a marketing department, as anthropologists working for us.
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
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I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
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If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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It’s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
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Other companies would say I’m taking risks, but that’s my path. It doesn’t feel like risk to me.
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It’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
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They are playing that game you play before you die: golf.
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We were searching for employees but people turned up instead.
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I think the Body Shop can be a role model for other companies.
Anita Roddick

There is a fine line between the delinquent mind of an entrepreneur and that of a crazy person. The entrepreneur’s dream is almost a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. When you see something new, your vision usually isn’t shared by others. The difference between a crazy person and the successful entrepreneur is that the latter can convince others to share the vision.
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