Quote

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

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
Human
Abuse
Humans
Putting
Good
Solutions
Abuses
Forward
Campaigning
Rights
Opposing
Practice
Philanthropy
Business
Practices
Also
Destructive

More quotes by Anita Roddick

Image
There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
Anita Roddick
Image
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Anita Roddick
Image
the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
Anita Roddick
Image
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
Anita Roddick
Image
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Anita Roddick
Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
Anita Roddick
Image
Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.
Anita Roddick
Image
It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.
Anita Roddick
Image
There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
Anita Roddick
Image
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.
Anita Roddick
Image
Being good is good business
Anita Roddick
Image
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
Image
I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
Anita Roddick
Image
The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
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
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
Anita Roddick
Image
I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
Anita Roddick
Image
Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
Anita Roddick
Image
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.
Anita Roddick
Image
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
Anita Roddick