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
becomes believe passion succeed
To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.
believe ninety-nine way
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.
women believe differences
If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
dream crazy believe
Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.
believe issues roles
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
believe cynical marketing
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
leadership believe thinking
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
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."
inspiring believe commitment
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
crazy believe people
It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
success believe passion
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
battle fighting harder meet
Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle
hang longer sure
I've got power, I've got influence, and I've got money, but I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to hang around in the company.
men tables firsts
Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.