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

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

we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.