Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.