Anita Roddick Quotes - Page 6

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.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

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.

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.