Top 120 Anita Roddick Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.”

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2. “Communication is the key for any global business.”

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3. “Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.”

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4. “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”

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5. “Being good is good business.”

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6. “To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”

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7. “Be daring. Be first. Be different.”

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8. “Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.”

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9. “The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.”

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10. “Whatever you do, be different. If you’re different, you will stand out.”

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11. “Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.”

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12. “Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.”

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13. “We communicate with passion and passion persuades.”

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14. “We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.”

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15. “You’ve got to be hungry – for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality.”

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16. “Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.”

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17. “The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don’t need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we’ve always relied on word of mouth and stories.”

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18. “Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.”

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19. “The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”

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20. “I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.”

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21. “Be special. Be anything but mediocre.”

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22. “I’m an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn’t part of my thinking.”

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23. “Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil – the next resource worth going to war over.”

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24. “Mess with nature and it will mess right back...”

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25. “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.”

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26. “We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.”

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

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28. “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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29. “Travel is like a university without walls.”

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30. “Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

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31. “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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32. “Don’t underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.”

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33. “Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.”

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34. “You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I’d name passion every time.”

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37. “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been to bed with a mosquito.”

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38. “Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.”

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39. “If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.”

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40. “If you don’t believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”

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41. “I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.”

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42. “Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.”

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45. “We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.”

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46. “The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.”

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47. “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.”

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

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49. “Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.”

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50. “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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