Zitat des Tages von Anita Roddick:
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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.
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
