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

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

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.

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.