Anita Roddick Quotes - Page 2

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

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.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Communication is the key for any global business.

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

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.

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.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

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.