Top 15 Anita Roddick Quotes

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

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

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

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

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.

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.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently… This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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