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.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

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

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.