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
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.
running business school
I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.
business school body
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.
business trying faces
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
business thinking community
I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
running business home
Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
business thinking people
I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.
business numbers community
I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.
business making-money profit
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
business morality kind
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
business moving civilization
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
business lines argument
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
business loss excitement
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
powerful business government
business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.