Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBEwas a British 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 world countries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 October 1942
running business views
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.
love-is bigs big-business
The word love is never mentioned in big business.
crazy believe journey
There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."
wall creative
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
craziness bigs stills
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
keys greed world
One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.
communication organization keys
The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
powerful passion opportunity
You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.
wall university
Travel is like a university without walls.
success answers business-woman
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
successful long people
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
business practice rights
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
thinking practice like-love
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
strong-women young-entrepreneurs empowering
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.