When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness – you don’t look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun. Anita Roddick Read Quote
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. Anita Roddick Read Quote
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. Anita Roddick Read Quote
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. Anita Roddick Read Quote
I traveled enormously during the 1960’s, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. Anita Roddick Read Quote
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. Anita Roddick Read Quote
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. Anita Roddick Read Quote
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. Anita Roddick Read Quote
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. Anita Roddick Read Quote
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. Anita Roddick Read Quote