Anita Roddick

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. ”

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. ”

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. ”

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. ”

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? ”

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”