Quotes from Anita Roddick

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Measure your success according to fun and creativity.

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.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

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

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

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

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.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

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

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.