There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

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.

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