Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick, DBEwas a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 October 1942
inspiring believe commitment
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.
shopping choices moral
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
life change past
Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
hell ifs i-can
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
leadership believe thinking
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
passion names driving
If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
communication feel-better animal
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
heart doors creating
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
organization needs roles
Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.
nature mess
Mess with nature and it will mess right back ...
fool moral difficult
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
practice organization needs
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.
vote company
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
successful ideas important
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.