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

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

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

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 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

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 don't want to be Sheryl Sandberg and 'Lean In', I don't want to lean in like a guy. I want to be more. I want to be a woman and proudly a woman.

- Mary Portas