Anita Roddick

England
23 Oct 1942 // 10 Sep 2007
Businesswoman

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My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

Quoted in The Adventure Capitalists (1998)
But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
If companies are in business solely to make money, you can't fully trust whatever else they do or say... The whole sense of fun is lost, the whole sense of play, of derring-do.

Body and Soul (1991)
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' principles � qualities like love and care and intuition.

Body and Soul (1991)
Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

Body and Soul (1991)
Business has to be a force for social change. It is not enough to avoid hideous evil - it must, we must, actively do good. If business stays parochial, without moral energy or codes of behaviour, claiming there are no such thing as values, then God help us all. If you think morality is a luxury business can't afford, try living in a world without it.

Speech to the International Forum on GlobalizationTeach-In, Seattle, Washington. 'Trading with Principles' (November 27, 1999)
Today's corporations have global responsibilities because their decisions affect world problems concerning economics, poverty, security and the environment.

Body and Soul (1991)
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Body and Soul (1991)
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Quoted in The World's Best Thoughts on Life and Living (1981)
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