When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to work but I'm only a housewife now."…

- Mary Portas

Because of the financial crash, we've lost trust in these big businesses that were led by a linear ambition to reach the top by risk - and invariably…

- Mary Portas

Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see…

- Mary Portas

The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from get…

- Mary Portas

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

- Mary Portas

When I first went on TV, to make you look like a successful woman you had to be ball-breaking. I remember looking at these shows and thinking 'I'm no…

- Mary Portas

I have a responsibility to lots of people in my life. I have three children, I'm a wife, I have 60 staff and lots of charity shops, so therefore I ha…

- Mary Portas

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

- Mary Portas

The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work wi…

- Mary Portas