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.
years time-zones creating
It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
communication creating messages
By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
creating getting-older disease
Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
heart doors creating
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
battle fighting harder meet
Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle
becomes believe passion succeed
To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.
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.
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.
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.
voice use world
You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
real thinking media
I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
jobs support community
If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
hate entrepreneur tears
Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.