Quote

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

Anita Roddick

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
Think
Whatever
Empowered
Thinking
Success
Empowerment
Strong
Empowering
Inspirational
Entrepreneur
Mother
Female
Women
Gave
Better
Advice
Different
Stand

More quotes by Anita Roddick

Image
Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.
Anita Roddick
Image
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.
Anita Roddick
Image
Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.
Anita Roddick
Image
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Anita Roddick
Image
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.
Anita Roddick
Image
Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
Anita Roddick
Image
We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
Anita Roddick
Image
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
Anita Roddick
Image
We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
Anita Roddick
Image
There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change travel is like a university without walls.
Anita Roddick
Image
You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
Anita Roddick
Image
It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
Anita Roddick
Image
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.
Anita Roddick
Image
Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.
Anita Roddick
Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
Anita Roddick
Image
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.
Anita Roddick
Image
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
Anita Roddick
Image
The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
Anita Roddick
Image
The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
Anita Roddick
Image
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
Anita Roddick