I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

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.

The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.