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
age unstoppable force
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
giving-up passion men
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.
traveler 1960s traveled
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
school care stuff
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
queens jobs awards
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.
jobs creativity mean
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
skills giving balance
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.
people community looks
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
movement accumulation public-good
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
inspirational lds views
You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.
business creating people
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
real moving home
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
women believe differences
If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
success destiny care
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.