Anita Roddick
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.Collection: Politics
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.Collection: Environmental
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.Collection: Finance
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.Collection: Success
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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.
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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.
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
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.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greedCollection: Responsibility
Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.Collection: Courage
Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.Collection: Differences
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.Collection: Inspirational
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.Collection: Leadership
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.Collection: Fun
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.Collection: Inspirational
Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.Collection: Inspired
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.Collection: Fun
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.Collection: Success
Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.Collection: Keys
Being good is good businessCollection: Leadership
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.Collection: Strong Women
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.Collection: Ideas
I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.Collection: Morning
Be daring. Be first. Be different.Collection: Business
Mess with nature and it will mess right back.Collection: Nature
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!Collection: Wrinkles
If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.Collection: Passion
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.Collection: Clever
If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.Collection: Women
I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.Collection: Suffering
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.Collection: Entrepreneur
The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.Collection: Exciting