First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Interpretation
To succeed, prioritize fun, infuse love into your work, and be willing to go against the norm.
Anita Roddick emphasizes that a successful and fulfilling life is built on three important principles: enjoying what you do, pouring love into your endeavors, and daring to take a path that differs from the mainstream. This approach not only fosters creativity and passion but also invites personal and professional growth, ultimately leading to success that is both rewarding and authentic.
In practice
In a motivational speech to young entrepreneurs.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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