We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

Being good is good business