241 Quotes by Anita Roddick

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    There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

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    I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

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    It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

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    A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

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    What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

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    The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

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    I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.

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    My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

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