I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

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.

Communication is the key for any global business.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.