Anita Roddick Quotes

“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop.
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― Anita Roddick

“I loved her because she made me laugh every single day. I loved her determination to be a maverick and her ceaseless caring for the underdog”
― Gordon Roddick

“I guess if I am being honest, I was better at playing second fiddle – my life seems to have borne that out – with occasional bursts of first fiddle (The Big Issue, the Amazon, Riding across the Gran Chaco) – a slightly second-rate Ranulph Fiennes or even Pen Hadow. Nothing I have ever done had the benefit of planning – more based on ignorance than risk.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“I guess if I am being honest, I was better at playing second fiddle – my life seems to have borne that out – with occasional bursts of first fiddle (The Big Issue, the Amazon, Riding across the Gran Chaco) – a slightly second-rate Ranulph Fiennes or even Pen Hadow. Nothing I have ever done had the benefit of planning – more based on ignorance than risk.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Anita would never say no to anybody’s dreams.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It was always a question of being present in mind and consciousness – I liked that Anita constantly challenged.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We showed that breaking the rules could lift your head above the mist, the fog and clouds of incomprehension. There was sunshine and laughter up there – anything, everything was possible!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Constantly, the thought is, will I be brave enough? So far, I have not risen to that challenge in my personal or public life. I was good enough to give shape but not detail to the opportunity I had in business.”
― Gordon Roddick

“38 Degrees.
After the calamitous loss of Anita, I was looking for something to honour her that had a hint of activism and would be one of her legacy marks.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am suddenly
Held still,
Held still,
But filled
With her.
I am suddenly
Turned
But revolve
About her.
I am suddenly
Me,
But breathe
About her.
I am suddenly
Held still
By her.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What a thing is this
River we run
What a thing is this
Music we fill
What a thing is this
Love we fun
What a thing is this
Quiet we still
What a thing is this
Universe we spin
What a thing is this
That is us”
― Gordon Roddick

“I can’t diminish my part in the life of The Body Shop and, of course, the determination and brilliant foresight of Anita, the trail she blazed and the dance she led us all on, the things we achieved and how much she is missed even after all these years, beyond her tragic death on 10 September 2007 – the years have gone quickly.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am now 80+ and happy to be alive and sitting in the departure lounge. Anita and I made a great partnership, sometimes stormy, and we achieved a lot together in the great arena of life. I hope to exit with a smile, surrounded by my family.”
― Gordon Roddick

“You
With
Your public eyes
And your
Dark hair
I fun your love
And am
Pooled
Into your
Holy See”
― Gordon Roddick

“FUNNY THAT
I cannot think what is
distinct about my life?
What is not
Is what I’ve got
It’s not like
I’ve run rife.
I’ve mostly left that
To my wife.”
― Gordon Roddick

“In business, we need to find a better way, but I know from bitter personal experience that when Anita and I decided to turn The Body Shop into a public company, we lost control to conservative institutions that cared little for its future. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“We developed ethical innovations such as community trade, which involved sharing the profits from some products with the communities that produced them and running many challenging campaigns.”
― Gordon Roddick

“38 Degrees. Anita would have been happy that a new spirit of activism would have taken root and her passions supported beyond her life.”
― Gordon Roddick