Quotes from Anita Roddick

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

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

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

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.

The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

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.

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

I'm interested in any ingredient that has a history, that's been used by women, that works

I'm not about turning back the clock or promising some magic elixir of youth. It's an acknowledgment of the fact that as we age our skin has different needs.

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

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, founder of The Body Shop. Via: eBetterBooks

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.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

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

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

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.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

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

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

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.

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.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.