241 Quotes by Anita Roddick

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

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

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.

Look at the Quakers – they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world’s trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn’t one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that’s the kind of morality you get.

If you’ve got a partner that’s supportive and you’re doing something you enjoy it doesn’t ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.