Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

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.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

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.