241 Quotes by Anita Roddick

If you think you're 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.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

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

Irritation is a great source of energy 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.