Anita Roddick Quotes - Page 3

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

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.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

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.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.

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.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

Over the past decades...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.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?