Anita Roddick Quotes

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

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.

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.

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.

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

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.

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.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

Being good is good business

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

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.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.