Latest Anita Roddick Quotes from Interviews

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• You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.

  Anita Roddick

  Voice, Groups, Use

• Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

  Anita Roddick

  Voice, Alive, Way

• The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.

  Anita Roddick

  Loss, Doe, Suitcases

• I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

  Anita Roddick

  Suffering, Body, Hepatitis C

• I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Thinking, Leader, Wealth

• One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Anecdotes, Needs

• The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

  Anita Roddick

  Fashion, Body, Want

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

  Anita Roddick

  Hate, Entrepreneur, Tears

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Support, Community

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

  Anita Roddick

  Lonely, Loneliness, Forever

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.

  Anita Roddick

  Men, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk