If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.