a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

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

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

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 don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.