“The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if possible.” Quote by Gordon Roddick
“Three times, we tried to buy back the business. The difficulty was that financial institutions assumed if we wanted to buy the company back from shareholders, we must have an idea that profits were about to rise considerably.” WisdomTruthBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopProfits With Principles Author:Gordon Roddick
“There needs to be some mechanism to give a voice to the general good – especially in the case of the energy giants who have such control over our future.” WisdomTruthEnergyBusinessIntegrityReflectionEthicsContemplationAttributed No SourceProfits With Principles Author:Gordon Roddick
“Dreams are nothing if not acted upon and turned into reality. To that, I add, keep control of your dreams because if you hand them over to others, they will not have the same commitment to achieving your reality.” LifeWisdomTruthResponsibilityDreamsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“It's about celebrating diversity in all its aspects, human and biological.” LifeWisdomTruthDiversityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Accept responsibility.” LifeWisdomTruthResponsibilityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Throughout my life, I have been drawn to outsiders. The ultimate outsiders were the Beat Poets. Read the Beat Poets' work aloud. Their modern equivalent would be rappers.” WisdomTruthLiteratureFriendshipIntegrityReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsidersBeat Poets Author:Gordon Roddick
“The Beat Poets wrote spontaneously, ignoring accepted form in favour of the complex rhythms of everyday speech.” LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureFriendshipIntegrityContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsidersBeat Poets Author:Gordon Roddick
“The heroes (Lucky Jim’s) are so attractive because there is an honesty in the portrayal of a weak, sometimes witty, human being with the ability to laugh – the ones committed to action, the irredeemable, the unchangeable – a youthful obsession of mine.” LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“My personal heroes are those who live as they shout, as they proclaim, as they are, for sure, with buckets full of insecurity, doubt and quicksands of anxiety. – out there – unafraid – uncopyable – unquenchable – dissatisfied – slightly dangerous – uncontrollable – and always corruptible!” LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.” Inspirational Author:Bertrand Russell