Anita Roddick Quotes

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

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.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Business is one of the most powerful forces for change on the planet.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.

I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.

Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs.

I've always known I've wanted to build companies that have a social impact.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.

In any business, you have to evolve.