Quotes from Anita Roddick

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

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

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.

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.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

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.

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

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

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.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

The word love is never mentioned in big business.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

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.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.