Quotes by Anita Roddick

“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.”

“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”

“To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.”

“The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”

“Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle”

“If you think youre too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”

“There is no scientific answer for success. You cant define it. Youve simply got to live it and do it.”

“a revolution in kindness”

“If I cant do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?”

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isnt that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because its so transitory. Its about shaping my own destiny.

If you think youre too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

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

There is no scientific answer for success. You cant define it. Youve simply got to live it and do it.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, whos going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and its more powerful than religion. So its going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

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

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 money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isnt one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.