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

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.