I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

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.

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 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.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.