Profits With Principles Quotes

“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

“The moment I realised that we had made a mistake in taking The Body Shop public was about eight years after we did so. It was also the moment I felt I grew up. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“I saw how much we were subject to other people's expectations in the City – and they weren't the same as ours.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We felt increasingly trapped by some shareholders' conservatism and narrow outlook. ”
― Gordon Roddick

“The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if possible.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Three times, we tried to buy back the business. The difficulty was that financial institutions assumed if we wanted to buy the company back from shareholders, we must have an idea that profits were about to rise considerably.”
― Gordon Roddick

“There needs to be some mechanism to give a voice to the general good – especially in the case of the energy giants who have such control over our future.”
― Gordon Roddick