Cynicism Is What Passes For Insight When

Free Trade Holds Much Of The Blame For Continued International Conflict. Markets Are Said To Possess Wisdom That Is Somehow Superior To Man. Those Of Us In Business Who Travel In The Developing World See The Results Of Such Western Wisdom And Have A Rumbling Disquiet About Much Of What Our Economic Institutions Have Bought Into.

Running A Company On Market Research Is Like Driving While Looking In The Rear View Mirror.

Whatever You Do, Be Different - That Was The Advice My Mother Gave Me, And I Can't Think Of Better Advice For An Entrepreneur. If You're Different, You Will Stand Out.

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.

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).