Anita Roddick Quotes

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

We will always put our values before our bottom line.

In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

The future of profit is purpose.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

A superior man thinks of what is right. A small man thinks of profit.

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

A corporation has no soul.

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

Being good is good business

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

I try to do the right thing.

There is only one social responsibility of business

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Do well by doing good.