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26 quotes by Anita Roddick

Dame Anita Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British-born international businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third...
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

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

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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than... →

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

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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... →

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

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

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

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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and... →

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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

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

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But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how... →

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