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.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.