I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently… This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. Anita Roddick Read Quote
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. Anita Roddick Read Quote
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. Anita Roddick Read Quote
I didn’t go to business school, didn’t care about financial stuff and the stock market. Anita Roddick Read Quote
Look at the Quakers – they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. Anita Roddick Read Quote
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don’t tend to support big agencies. Anita Roddick Read Quote
The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn’t one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. Anita Roddick Read Quote
