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Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick

Country United Kingdom
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
Category Social Activists
Quotes 30

About Author

Dame Anita Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.

Quotes by Anita Roddick

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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” Uncategorized
“I can resist anything except temptation.” Uncategorized
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.” Uncategorized
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.” Uncategorized
“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.” Uncategorized
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?” Uncategorized
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Uncategorized
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” Uncategorized
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Uncategorized
It’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Uncategorized
If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble Uncategorized
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. Uncategorized
We have turned our attention to men because we feel that they need it, although some of them may not know it yet. Uncategorized
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen. Uncategorized
If you think morality is a luxury business can’t afford, try living in a world without it. Uncategorized
There are only two ways to raising money: the hard way and the very hard way. Uncategorized
‘Trade Not Aid’ is a way of trading honourably with indigenous communities in disadvantaged areas – not changing the environment or the culture. Uncategorized
The difference between a crazy person and the successful entrepreneur is that the latter can convince others to share the vision. Uncategorized
The entrepreneur’s dream is almost a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. Uncategorized
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. Uncategorized