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List of Anita Roddick Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 167 inspiring quotes by Anita Roddick.

About Anita Roddick

  • Born: October 23, 1942
  • Died: September 10, 2007
  • Occupation: Entrepreneur
    • 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.
    Real Thinking Media
    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.
    Voice Groups Use
    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.
    Church Behaviour Mosques
    It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. now 30 years on the body shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. and i haven't a clue how we got here!
    Years Time Zones Creating
    Why should how i act in my workplace be any different from how i interact with my family at home? it's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
    Running Business Home
    Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. herodotus, historian if i had to name a driving force in my life, i'd name passion every time.
    Giving Up Passion Men
    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.
    Life Thinking People
    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.
    Powerful Government Pockets
    When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. but it is such fun
    Running Fun Looks
    How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
    Faces Spirit Selling
    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.
    Crazy Sleep Thinking
    It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
    War Military Research
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