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.

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.

Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.