I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.