Anita Roddick Quotes

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.