Anita Roddick

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. Anita Roddick

Believe Community Company

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

Bed Impact Small

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

be better Be Different First

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. Anita Roddick

America Body Foundation

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. Anita Roddick

Always Award Body

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. Anita Roddick

Business Finance Management

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

Choice Enough Power

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. Anita Roddick

Body Environmental Foundation

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. Anita Roddick

Business Community Money

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth. Anita Roddick

People Stock Market Your

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

Creative Nobody Survival

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. Anita Roddick

Balance Freedom Life

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

End Kindness People

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

Answer Define Live