241 Quotes by Anita Roddick

A vision is something you see and others don’t. Some people would say that’s a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism – that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

People don’t want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling – people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

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.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That’s where it should be.

My mother’s bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They’ll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren’t part of the language of men.