Cynicism Is What Passes For Insight When

If Civilization Is Going To Survive, Business And Policy-makers Must Move On, To Find Within Themselves More Developed Emotions Than Fear Or Greed.

Women Are Storytellers, They Are Communicators. They'll Go And Sit Around A Table And Talk About Their First Date, Their First Smoke, Their First Lipstick, Whatever It Is. Those Rituals Of Life, Marriages And Death Aren't Part Of The Language Of Men.

The Body Shop Foundation Is Run By Our Staff And Supports Social Activism And Environmental Activism. We Don't Tend To Support Big Agencies.

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.

I Started The Body Shop In 1976 Simply To Create A Livelihood For Myself And My Two Daughters, While My Husband, Gordon, Was Trekking Across The Americas. I Had No Training Or Experience And My Only Business Acumen Was Gordon's Advice To Take Sales Of £300 A Week. Nobody Talks Of Entrepreneurship As Survival, But That's Exactly What It Is And What Nurtures Creative Thinking.