241 Quotes by Anita Roddick

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.