Anita Roddick Quotes

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

I have always been a business person.

The business end of business has never interested me.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

I'm not into business at all.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

I'm a business person at heart.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.