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

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.