I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

Although sometimes the road to success follows a path less-travelled, a path less-travelled often leads to nowhere

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

Why do we serve? When we understand why, we won't be concerned about where we serve.

Try to be of some use to others.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.