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
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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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Over the past decade, ... 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.
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Be special. Be anything but mediocre.
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The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
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Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
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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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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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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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The next time you go shopping, demand more change.
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
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Over the past decade... 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.