We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

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.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.