If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

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

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.