Anita Roddick
England
23 Oct 1942 // 10 Sep 2007
Businesswoman
23 Oct 1942 // 10 Sep 2007
Businesswoman
Quotes
We don't so much have a marketing department, as anthropologists are working for us.
It's still harder for a woman to get up her own business than it is to get money for a new car, or certainly a new kitchen.
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
It's having a relationship with a community whereby you can give them more control over their lives by trading with them.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays