#k

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#get #knocked #know #many #misses

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#community #company #contributes #i #invest

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#everything #heart #market

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#because #business #businesses #creed #decently

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#business #business school #care #financial #go

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#business #business people #cared #community #employees

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#back #been #business #businesses #call

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#businesses #consumer #control #going #governments

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#away #awful #body #body shop #company

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#economic #economic values #education #either #elected