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

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

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

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.

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