There Is No Scientific Answer For Success.

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.

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

If You Think You're Too Small To Have An Impact, Try Going To Bed With A Mosquito.

I'd Have Opened A Bloody Library If I'd Wanted To Be Quiet.

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.