#ed

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. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#balance #create #earn #freedom #gives

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#hear #hit #i #lot #me

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#cup #davis #davis cup #finals #get

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#austin #before #building #center #day

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

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#also #always #been #business #good

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#award #been #body #body shop #created

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 traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#during #enormously #everything #i #measured

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