When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.