Businesswomen from the United Kingdom

"It looks real. I think it is."

"Jeffrey and I have everyone on videotape!"

"Virginia [Giuffre] is an absolute liar and everything she has said is a lie. Therefore, based on those lies I cannot speculate on what anybody else did or didn’t do … everything she said is false."

"I don't recognise that picture and I don't believe it is a real picture. There's so many things wrong with it. There is no original and there isn't a true picture and there are that many other things besides that I cannot hardly get into . . . I don't know how many points there are, but there are over 50 problems with the picture."

"Before Clinton, Epstein’s rare appearances in the gossip columns tended to be speculation as to the true nature of his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell. “It’s a mysterious relationship that they have,” says society journalist David Patrick Columbia. “In one way, they are soul mates, yet they are hardly companions anymore. It’s a nice conventional relationship, where they serve each other’s purposes.” Friends of the two say that Maxwell, whose social life has always been higher-octane than Epstein’s, lent a little pizzazz to the lower-profile Epstein. Indeed, at a party at Maxwell’s house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian ladies of the night as one is to see Prince Andrew. The Oxford-educated Maxwell, described by many as a man-eater (she flies her own helicopter and was recently seen dining with Clinton at Nello’s on Madison Avenue), lives in her own townhouse a few blocks away. Epstein is frequently seen around town with a bevy of comely young women but there has been no boldfaced name to replace Maxwell."

"2015 January: Virginia Roberts files court papers in Florida claiming that she was forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew and lawyer Alan Dershowitz when she was underage. In a sworn affidavit, she provides photographs of her with the prince and with Epstein’s close associate, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. She claims Maxwell worked as Epstein’s madam, which she denies. Dershowitz and the prince deny her claims as well, setting off a series of legal actions between Dershowitz and Roberts’ attorneys that are later resolved in an out-of-court settlement."

"One of the unexpected twists in this sordid tale involves Virginia Roberts, who, at 16-years in 1999, was working as a locker-room attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and was solicited by an Epstein "associate," Ghislaine Maxwell, to become part of Epstein’s prostitution ring."

"(Virginia) Giuffre said that Maxwell recruited her and other high-school age girls to perform sexual favors for Epstein. She also took part in the abuse, Giuffre added. Maxwell, 57, denies the allegations and has called Giuffre a liar, leading Giuffre to sue Maxwell for defamation."

"The Oxford-educated British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the disgraced media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, is at the very centre of controversy this week... it’s a case of did she, didn’t she – to what extent was she bound up, even leading an underground operation? The recently released papers suggest that she was involved in ‘recruiting, maintaining...and trafficking girls for Epstein’. She faces a conspiracy investigation in the United States along with the other former assistants of Epstein – all allegations which she firmly denies."

"Lady Harvey also spoke on her friendship with Maxwell, claiming she had not seen her in over a year and believed she would never be seen in public again. She said: 'With Epstein and Ghislaine it was teamwork. He had the finances, she had the black book and they were a great pair together, and together they were taking over the world... I haven't seen her since September last year at a friend's baby shower. I don't think anyone is going to find her. She's gone far away. She's a bit like a James Bond character. She's quite a unique person and I don't believe anyone is going to find her. I don't think we will ever see her again, it's going to be like Robert Maxwell continued; she will continue that family mystery.'"

"Royal expert Russell Myers said... Prince Andrew and the royal family... could soon face an absolute tinderbox if and when Epstein’s former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, agrees to share details regarding her ex and Prince Andrew’s friendship. “As I understand it, there is a bidding war going on for her story – another interview. The palace must be quaking in their boots because not only Prince Andrew’s given that awful interview...” ..Prince Andrew confirmed that he was friends with Maxwell. He also said that it wouldn’t have been possible for him to avoid Epstein because they were linked together by Maxwell."

"Nothing will heal the trauma. These women are affected for their whole lives, but at the very least they should have money. She definitely has millions. She wanted to marry him. She didn't, but she got a lot of money. Cash and assets. All blood money.'"

"Together, Maxwell and Epstein compiled a glitzy Rolodex, from Prince Andrew to Bill Clinton to Donald Trump. They popped up at fundraisers and galas, becoming two darlings of high society. Those would largely stop after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a girl below age 18 for prostitution—a lenient and deeply suspicious plea agreement. But she would maintain her own stops on the society circuit until as recently as 2014. Then investigators and journalists started probing the dark underbelly of Epstein and Maxwell's world. As the reports rained down, they were isolated and renounced. Epstein was the primary target, but when he died, the focus shifted to Maxwell. Multiple Epstein accusers have named her in civil suits for the role they say she played in Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking operation."

"In 2015, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein's former sex slaves, had filed a defamation suit against Maxwell. The victim had alleged that she was recruited by Maxwell and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, once when she was 17 years old. According to The Sun, even though the case has been settled, sealed and redacted, court filings are said to contain the names of hundreds of Epstein's wealthy and celebrity pals. The court documents include Maxwell's hour-long depositions in the case and a lengthy 418-page transcript under consideration for release... ABC reported that the sealed court filings are believed to contain the names of hundreds of people, including some hi-profile people, who socialized, traveled or worked with Epstein for more than a decade."

"My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy... Their whole entire lives revolved around sex."

"New York prosecutors gave another description of Maxwell as they unveiled perjury charges against her on Thursday. “She set the trap,” federal prosecutor Audrey Strauss said of Maxwell’s alleged attempts to recruit girls for Epstein. “She pretended to be a woman they could trust” and “in some cases, Maxwell participated in abuse herself”... One Epstein accuser, Maria Farmer, recalled separately that Maxwell would leave Epstein’s New York mansion saying, “I’ve got to go get girls for Jeffrey.” Maxwell has denied the accusations. Maxwell’s arrest by FBI agents on Thursday in a small New Hampshire town... sent new tremors through an old network of friends whose members have been scrambling to distance themselves from Epstein... The network includes not only Prince Andrew, an old Maxwell friend ... It also includes former passengers onboard Epstein’s private plane, dubbed the “Lolita Express”..."

"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the madam. She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation ... to make sure that the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing... She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.""

"Her father died in 1991... After his death, the British media dubbed him the “crook of the century,” when it was revealed that he’d taken hundreds of millions of pounds from his employees pension funds. Maxwell told one news outlet after her father’s death that she felt he was murdered. She moved to the United States the year of her father’s death... In 2000, she moved into a $4.95 million Manhattan townhouse purchased "by an anonymous limited liability company, with an address that matches the office of J. Epstein & Co. Representing the buyer was Darren Indyke, Mr. Epstein’s longtime lawyer.""

"Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Wednesday that Giuffre's lawyers had come into possession of the documents improperly, noting that the protective order could only be enforced during the civil lawsuit proceedings which had already been settled. Preska wrote that all the materials in the files "shall be destroyed." Preska also requested proof that the documentation had been destroyed."

"For a party girl with no parties left to attend, Ghislaine Maxwell's 20-mile journey from her mountain hideaway in Bradford, New Hampshire, to Merrimack county jail was the brutal, cinematic finale to a social highlife that stretched across decades and continents.... a friend of hers came forward yesterday to say she would “never” disclose information about the Duke of York in the Epstein case. Former investment banker Laura Goldman said Maxwell regarded the Duke of York as a friend and was "never going to say anything" about him to prosecutors. But that pressure comes as signs in the US point toward the investigation moving swiftly beyond Maxwell to other figures implicated in the Epstein scandal."

"Should you care about who Ghislaine Maxwell is photographed with? Probably not, seeing as the socialite and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein is photographed with just about everybody. But that doesn’t mean you won’t become enthralled, as thousands have, by an Instagram account dedicated to showing you every celebrity and powerful person photographed with Maxwell, who last week was arrested on sex trafficking charges."

"As the lurid headlines swirl in the wake of the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, questions again are surging over what comes next for Britain's Prince Andrew, who is caught up in the high-profile affair.... Juliet Sorensen, a former federal prosecutor and a professor of law at Northwestern University, said the royal would most likely not be shielded by sovereign immunity. "Sovereign immunity would not apply to a case in which a sovereign has engaged in criminal activity," she said. "If somebody is participating in sexual trafficking and exploitation of minors and young women, that has absolutely nothing to do with their duties as a sovereign, so sovereign immunity would not apply.""

"She [Maxwell] pretended to be a woman they could trust... Today, after many years, Ghislaine Maxwell finally stands charged for her role in these crimes.” ...The indictment claims Maxwell groomed at least three minor girls to engage in sex acts with Epstein. (Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2015.) She allegedly befriended them by expressing concern about their lives and families, and then took them to the movies and shopping. According to the indictment, Maxwell would “try to normalise sexual abuse for a minor victim by… discussing sexual topics, undressing in front of the victim, being present when a minor victim was undressed, and/or being present for sex acts involving the minor victim and Epstein.” In addition, she faces two counts of perjury for having “repeatedly lied when questioned about her conduct, including in relation to some of the minor victims.”"

"As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day in search of its subsidised breakfast granola-and-Nescafé offering and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris's thigh. She gave me a pitying glance but I did manage to snag an invite to her party in Headington Hill Hall—even though I wasn't in the same college as her and Boris. I have a memory of her father, Bob, coming out in a towelling robe and telling us all to go home."

"Hello," the woman says warmly. She looks to be in her late 30s, and her British accent reminds me of Mary Poppins. I couldn't tell you which designers she's wearing, but I bet her purse cost more than my dad's truck. The woman extends her manicured hand for me to shake. "Ghislaine Maxwell," she says, pronouncing her first name "Giilen". I point to my name tag. "I’m Jenna," I say, smiling like I've been told to smile. The woman's eyes alight on my book, which I've jammed with sticky notes. "Are you interested in massage?" she asks. "How wonderful!"

"Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s smallest number of motorized vehicles but the highest rate of road traffic fatalities, with Nigeria and South Africa leading the pack. Trauma has become a silent epidemic in Africa, an epidemic that will only spread as the economy grows. More and more Africans are buying cars and working in heavy and dangerous industries. At the same time, infrastructure is poor, safety laws lax, and cars badly maintained."

"We take pride in being the first Nigerian indigenous company to do this...We are training more people to go into the air ambulance sector and I think our paramedics now have a huge amount of management skills. I just think that we need to start thinking outside the box and be more confident in the concept of African innovation."

"True success is about a passion to create a better world, live a life that you can look back on and be truly proud of."

"I did not want to have another charity setup and rely in fund fund rasing to create impact."

"We have a mixed-pool of more than 20 aircraft that we use for different types of evacuation, and about 30 staff all employed in different capacities with us and branches in three major cities in Nigeria."

"One of the most interesting things that happened to me when starting the business was the realization that all my academic medical training and the prestige that comes with the title of being a doctor was not enough."

"I have a very different definition of mentorship, to me, it means 99 percent of giving to a person."

"Mentorship to me is to continuously figure out how i can add value to the lives of my mentors so that those relationships will be sustainable."

"You’ll find true success when you are passionate about improving the world and using your skills and talents to make a positive impact. And, to be honest, it’s impossible to hide the fruits of passion."

"The more passionate you are about the world (and your business), the more likely you are to succeed."

"If you can find a way to combine your passion for making a difference with your desire to live a life that you can be proud of, you will be well on your way to finding true success."

"My values of authenticity and originality align with Vlisco’s brand personality. It is an honour to join the league of Dr Mrs Ellen Hagan; Eugenia Tachie-Menson; Elizabeth Akua-Nyarko Patterson; Regina Honu; Edith Uyovbukerhi and Yawa Hansen-Quao, who I am taking over from as Brand Ambassador. It is exciting to be recognised for the work we do and what we stand for as women. I look forward to shaping the future of this nation with my experience under the umbrella of the Vlisco brand."

"I strongly believe that every individual possesses untapped potential, and by helping them realise their full potential, communities, industries, countries, and the continent can make sustainable economic progress that creates true prosperity."

"Young people are demonstrating their creativity, leadership, and desire to lead the change that our continent (Africa) desperately needs. They want an opportunity to come together in a way that allows them to think, share and co-create solutions to the problems such as youth unemployment, building scalable enterprises and driving systemic change in their countries."

"All of life comes together to form who we are but sometimes, it's significant events that have a bigger impact than the normal day-to-day brand and I think coming to Ghana, the biggest thing that set me off was the fact that Ghana had that famine in 1983."

"You live in a connected world where your competition is not the guy sitting next to you, for you the human factor or your competition could be someone sitting in Canada, the UK or Australia. The human factor is bridged and access to a job is no longer dependent on location. Increasingly you will find people who are able to do your job remotely. That is a real fact and challenge which means over time your career will face competitive pressure that is not local."

"Some of the jobs we have today will be eroded, sometimes by technology but mostly by someone else who has found a more efficient way of doing and delivering it over the internet. Globally, people are paying attention to trends including skillsets required for jobs in Africa in the next decade. You cannot afford to be left out of this conversation. As young people, you need to position yourselves to take advantage of the current and future opportunities by staying relevant and informed."

"I am ... proud of the fact that over the years, I have been able to demonstrate to Ghana and the world that leadership is not a function of gender. I believe that black women, African women, are able to lead big businesses."

"Success doesn't just happen. It is as a result of years of learning and training."

"Despite what you may read, our world is not progressing quickly enough on critical issues of economic equity, environmental protection and the assurance of peace. It's as though, for all our smarts, we cannot accept each other as worthy of the basics of human lives around the globe; the excess of a few sometimes comes at the expense of many."

"Instead of waiting to be given the opportunity to be relevant, women need to assert and claim their place in the Tech industry by equipping themselves with knowledge about the industry, being exceptionally great at what they do and even greater when it comes to soft skills such as communications and human relations."

"For a long time, we (society) have given the tech industry an image women do not wish to be part of. Technology has been given a masculine face and attitude. First everyone expects males to be dominant in this field, then when a woman turns up, she is still expected to be masculine."

"We need to support, empower and encourage more women and girls into the field (technology). I have seen and met with some of the amazing young women in Tech and I am very confident the great work they are doing will inspire even more young women and girls into the field."

"I dedicate this (award) to every African child who dares to dream. Dream big, discern the voices that are for you, stay focused and enjoy the journey. The award is a testimony that the dream of every child in Africa is achievable."

"I see football and sport in general but particularly today football as an extremely important part of our development as individuals and our development as a nation. Sport is about development, it is about skill, it is about commitment, it is about dedication, it is about the tenacity to win against the odds, it is about the willingness to say that I will go the extra mile, even though at this point in time, I am exhausted, I am tired, my muscles are aching and I have a team counting on me and more importantly in their case I have a nation counting on me."

"Empowering young people through STEM is one of the surest ways to guarantee a better future for them, our country and continent. STEM inspires curiosity in young people and empowers them to be problem solvers and innovators. These skill sets are critical for success in any profession."

"I think every reformation or transformation project is a change project, isn't it? When you are managing change, the levels of challenges are varied, but I think the most important aspect of change which can become a challenge that needs to be managed upfront is that ultimately change affects people and we need to take people on a journey with us so that we embrace the fact that we change together."

"ICT and telecoms bring lots of convenience to people. It powers dreams and shapes aspirations. It connects family, friends and colleagues to collectively deliver extraordinary outcomes. For those who know me well in the industry, they will tell you that mt resolve is to better the lives of women, children and the less-privileged in society through Technology. I look forward to the day when together, we will make Ghana the technology hub of Africa for talents and breakthrough innovations that will transform the continent."

"We cannot afford to being happy to get by! We need to collectively step up and create our future. We can't keep blaming 'leaders'! We are all in."

"Today, football has become an extremely important part of our development as individuals and our development as a nation (Ghana). Sports is about development, it is about skill, it is about commitment, it is about dedication, it is about the tenacity to win against the odds, it is about the willingness to say that I will go the extra mile. There is so much more to it and we collectively should leverage football to drive our country (Ghana) forward because it is one of the few things that we all agree on."

"Whatever you do, whatever the situation, continue trying something new, new ideas, location, opportunities; but whatever it is, please try. If it works, you learn from it. Life is full of taking risks, learning and making progress."

"“even in leadership positions, many women are still treated as less-worthy peers. They are expected to be grateful for their inclusion, as though they did not work even harder than their male counterparts to get there. They are spoken to as subordinates by less qualified colleagues. Their ideas are discredited until those same ideas are articulated by a male colleague and then, suddenly, they are seen as the best ideas.”"

"Instead of waiting to be given the opportunity to be relevant, women need to assert and claim their place in the Tech industry.” on empowerment and gender inclusion in technology"

"Lucy is a trailblazer, a woman in leadership; fashionable and inspiring. She represents a queen, a change maker, a leader who inspire and she is our Ambassador who will help project the diversity and equality messages."

"Lucy is acclaimed for her selfless drive to mentor the next generation of leaders to create sustainable outcomes. Her commitment and devotion to mentoring young people on several platforms can be seen in her very successful launch of Evolve with STEM - an initiative to transform mindsets and inspire young people to embrace Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."

"Your birth is my birth; your death is my death."

"We’re all not warriors from Black Panther, we’re all not the Milaje. We cry, we bleed, we experience everything."

"I think there are different ways to show solidarity. If you feel like you're able to go and do that, by all means do that to speak out."

"I am just not cut out to run a public company and be answerable to hundreds of faceless shareholders."

"My parents always strove to try to ensure their children would have more than they had. That is really what made them tick."

"My father was from a strong working class background and came from an age where it was believed education was wasted on women. He used to say things like: 'If she was a boy I could understand it'."

"I wanted to demonstrate to my father I was still a good working class girl who would get married and have kids like everyone else. I soon realised it wasn't a very clever thing to have done."

"My mother had a lot to do with bringing up my daughter. I knew that when I left her with my mother she was safe and then I could get on with my career."

"To continue in psychology, I would have had to do educational psychology and you had to teach for a couple of years. The last thing I wanted to do was teach."

"My biggest horror is waking up in the morning and finding that I didn't have anything to do."

"“I always said that I wouldn’t lose a fortune on a football club.”"

"Again, that's a really difficult question to answer. I sat on the board for a couple of seasons and I know how difficult these things are."

"I think they made some very poor decisions. I also think that having realised that they maybe misjudged this, they could have said: 'Actually, we got a couple of things wrong here'. But that's not common in Scottish football, people don't generally hold their hands up and say: 'Oh, we got this wrong'."

"I think there's been so much negativity and it has reached such a height that without an independent review it's not ever going to to go away."

"I've sat on the SPFL board and I've approved a loan for another club. I know that loans can be approved."

"What they were looking for was input and advice from me with my business background to strengthen where they were with their plans. It was absolutely clear to me that their hearts were in the right place. What was required was more of a business perspective."

"As time went on, I definitely bought into the whole concept and became more involved."

"To be honest, being CEO and having that level of involvement in everything going on in the club – being in the thick of things – was what I loved, but the moment was right to step back from that."

"we want to make the club as successful as possible in Europe. That’s a game changer for Hearts and if we consolidate our position in the top three or four clubs in Scotland, that has to be our target."

"If something is wrong, it is wrong and we should all be doing our utmost to correct that wrong."

"To pour more financial hardship on specific clubs, given what we are all going through both now and for the foreseeable future, is both outrageous and shameful. We should be standing together to help clubs to survive and to save jobs."

"I know the passion, I know how much football means but so much of what you see and hear is illogical. The team is having a bad run; it happens to more or less everybody. I just think it’s unpleasant and feel for those in the firing line because if only life was that simple. You can deal with it for so long then it begins to wear you down."

"I’ve been criticised for spending money we didn’t have."

"No, I didn’t do that; I spent money I knew we had. Maybe we shouldn’t go into the discussion about whether I’ve always spent it wisely."

"They say timing is everything and the revolution in accessible technology helped massively with building the Stopcocks network. I simply couldn’t have accomplished what I’ve done without the revolution in technology making it happen. Each new thing I want to do has to wait till the tech catches up and allows us to do it."

"But being who I am, I set about finding out and taking action. That set me off on a road to build a national network of women plumbers and through that make an impact on water sustainability. If I’d realised the enormity of that vision, I may never have started out on the journey!"

"At the same time I continue to work towards this huge vision of a network of women plumbers changing the world. I’m making mistakes, getting things right and continuing to move towards the big goals"

"Being able to help other women make their dreams come true is simply amazing and the best inspiration. One of our loyal plumbers says she doesn’t know what would have happened to her if she hadn’t joined us. She says she could have been ‘in the gutter’ but instead she has a thriving business, healthy children and has just got married. She is happy and content for the first time in her life."

"Have patience, because it may take a long time. Have determination because you will encounter lots of obstacles. Have compassion for yourself when things go wrong and when they do, find the advantages of a change in direction."

"It’s an awkward balance to follow your gut instincts and also bring others in. If the vision is big you can’t do it alone, but if it’s a unique vision, other people try to push their own expectations and desires onto it. It’s good to have the right advisers and advocates."

"I became disillusioned with teaching and wanted to leave, I looked back at my dream subjects and combined them with my great respect, love and affinity with water (my star sign Scorpio is a water sign) so it had to be plumbing."

"We are women, but a lot of work still needs to be done to raise awareness that women plumbers exist, and to end the isolation female plumbers feel in their locations often not knowing how many of us there actually are."

"I left teaching because the changes in the education system meant I was putting more energy into admin than into teaching children."

"Fixing things, being a hero, and my passion for water all took me towards plumbing."

"I wonder why I do this, it isn’t easy; women in the skilled trades in construction represent less than one percent of all trades workers and there is massive opposition (and inertia) within the industry itself. There is no funding support and yet there is a popular belief that we must be a charity in receipt of funding (and therefore, a wage) if we’re providing this service."

"There’s a persistent belief that women shouldn’t get paid a decent wage for their work and expertise, especially when their client group is other women. We dispute this. We do not believe that women are “charity cases.” We all deserve to invest in our own futures and to receive a decent income."

"Working for yourself is flexible, you work your own hours, it's a great career and it is a very good earner."

"I feel I am an ordinary person and if ordinary people can get recognised for the work they do, it is fantastic."

"The thing about plumbing is that it’s all about having control."

"Plumbing is lazy."

"I’m sure you have learnt already that things are more enjoyable and absorbing if you are interested. Curiosity can power you to learn new things, develop new skills and make new connections. When making career choices, pick things that really interest you and will keep you curious, and you will be more successful."

"Through your degree, you have honed your curiosity and problem solving skills. From here, you will have many opportunities to push the boundaries of what engineers think is possible today and solve the problems of tomorrow. Stay curious."

"When it’s behind you, it’s behind you” and the mindset is crucial to looking forward and winning the next time."

"We need people like you with a passion for making things work, who embrace failure as a chance to learn and who are not afraid to tackle challenges head on. You are already great role models for aspiring engineers at school in the area and beyond."

"Self-awareness about what you do, why you do it and when you do it, is what is so important."

"The strongest lessons you get in life are normally the negative ones."

"Invest in memories. It’s ultimately what life is about—people, places, moments and experiences."

"“Stop benchmarking yourself against other successful entrepreneurs or business people—it wastes valuable energy! Your personality and circumstances are unique and there is no right or wrong way to grow an innovative business.”"

"“Learn from others’ experiences and be inspired by them, but also make your own rules and navigate your own path.”"

"“Sometimes it’s the right decision to end a particular course of action or working relationship, but I now make a more concerted effort to salvage or reverse a situation.”"

"“Trust your gut instinct as much if not more than the numbers, and surround yourself with people who you respect and enjoy working with.”"

"“The occasional error of judgment or wrong move can often move your business faster than the right ones… About-turns are not weak, they’re strong and demonstrate good leadership, but they need to happen quickly and be communicated decisively.”"

"“If you’re fortunate enough to have a product or service that you can trade for another, then ‘in kind’ deals can help a lot with cash flow in the early days.”"

"“My path to entrepreneurialism was more a default necessity out of the fact that I wasn’t very good at being someone else’s employee combined with this constant thirst to ‘disrupt’ and ultimately, and most importantly… luck.”"

"I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life"

"Legacy”? Just a bit, then! Whilst much of it is proud “legacy”, the bank, like every well-established financial services firm, had no shortage of ageing infrastructure and applications to clean up. Mercifully, a major overhaul had already born fruit when Russell joined in 2024, she cheerfully admits."

"I think the partnership bonus was the most critical [lesson]. [I learned early on that] you work better in a partnership than you do in a traditional supplier relationship, because you understand what your client is trying to do better, and you'll go the extra mile to help them do that."

"They touch almost everything at the bank” she says on production deployments, citing “anomaly detection on our asset servicing platforms, trade settlements; on our Client Services team, we have a multi-agentic solution; these are delivering real value in dollar terms and productivity terms. I would say that scale [of deployment] is pretty unique…”"

"environment you're trying to play into, you can standardize your own products, make your own business better… get into that real win-win for both organizations” she adds. “Nobody's successful without great partnerships. That is a real focus for me in engineering.”"

"Exclusivity is key to us. We need to justify every single penny of the taxpayers’ money. I’m not opposed to second windows, but when we do choose second windows, we do so with great care. There has to be a strategic purpose for us to choose them."

"We’ve had great successes in what we call Brit crime (British crime)—Happy Valley, Sherwood, Shetland, Vera, all of those shows. Even though the target audience is a little bit older, the great thing about those shows is that they work both on linear and on SVT Play. I call Brit crime our “bread and butter.” We’re always on the lookout for the next big, long-running Brit crime series."

". It’s been like this for quite a long time now, but the Nordics are quite far ahead with how the audience behaves. It’s a very picky audience, there’s a lot of content, and there’s also a high willingness to pay for content. So, we need to try to understand which need we fill for them as public-service"

"It sounds so cliche to say, but it has to be must-see television. That’s what we look for all the time. We need big, high-quality shows with great talent. But being public-service, we also have the luxury to try new and innovative formats with new talent."

"Engineering is harder to get into as a girl. Schools will generally funnel girls towards law or medicine"

"It is important to remember that still only 16% of the engineering workforce are women but in society, women make up 51% of the population"

"The general public still doesn’t see engineers in the way it does doctors or lawyers. You see doctors and lawyers portrayed on television and in fiction, but engineering only has visibility in documentary formats, so Inwed has an important role to promote the profession.”"

"Teachers and parents don’t see engineers in society. Most people who become engineers already have a family member in the industry"

"I needed a third module to complete my degree and chose systems engineering, thinking that it was about computer systems,” she says. It was definitely not what she was expecting but in a good way and it moved her career firmly into the engineering sector. It is clear she now thrives on the opportunities engineering offers."

"Women in business have just got so much positive energy and determination. It’s almost scary because they know exactly where they are going and nothing can stop them. Almost having a no-holds barred approach, nothing can stop them achieving what they want"

"Everyone you speak to wants to run a business. It’s interesting, but everyone thinks ‘Yes, I could have done that’, or ‘One day I’m going to do that’, but not all people have got the guts to leave their job or put their savings in so it becomes a pipedream that they talk about, but you can tell they will never actually do it. So I think there is a little bit of resentment. All those people are secretly hoping that it will fail because it makes them feel better about the fact that they are still in their secure jobs."

"I did have a lot of determination. I think you can get to a point of say eighteen months old, or maybe a year – which I think is a real danger point, because that’s when you have spent all your money – and it’s not working and a lot of your initial enthusiasm and optimism has just been ground down. I am quite good at reinventing my energy, so whilst I can get very depressed, the next day I suddenly think ‘Right, I’m going to fight this and keep going’."

"Keep innovating and pushing the business forward because also as we found lots of competitors start cropping up and they just relentlessly copy everything you do without really bothering that they are not being different. If you just stayed the same then all of your work would be washed away so I think it’s important to keep innovating."

"We should be in a strong position to inspire the next generation of female leaders. However, our post-pandemic ways of working may deny many women the opportunities that were so important to me in my early career."

"In the early head-spinning weeks of Covid lockdown, we were quick to champion the benefits of home working."

"So many ditched the commute and extolled the virtue of flexibility and being able to balance home and work life more seamlessly."

"It was only in the months that followed, that people realised the downside of home working wasn’t benefitting everyone equally."

"We find, certainly at Nationwide... that men are more likely to come into the office than women"."

"Being seen and then seeing other leaders is a really important part of development."

"I benefited enormously from watching some really excellent leaders and how they navigated challenging problems."

"Businesses do have a role to play in that."

"We just need to be careful that we don't inadvertently prevent women from taking some of the opportunities by not being in the office when they feel it's beneficial both to their skills and to contribute to the business."

"You don’t matter. You should be happy to just work at Starbucks. You should just be happy to become a cleaner and have a job like that. You should just be happy that you are safe. It is an additional form of re-traumatisation that happens to refugees, and there is no solution for it right now."

"It is surprising to me that investors haven’t realised like what good deal there is to invest in female founders and continue to throw money at this."

"It can take time to find the right balance, but I would say I have always tried to “blend” my life with work, although it can be hard sometimes. If you love what you do it makes it a lot less stressful. I can often be found doing my work emails whilst watching my children on the sports field, or taking my mum on store visits with me."

"I think they need to follow a career path that they are passionate about, whatever field that may be in"

"You are a role model whether you choose to be or not, your behaviours are copied, good or bad."

"Give yourself the space to be the person you want to be versus the person everyone else wants you to be."

"For me it’s important to know what failure looks like, after all, success is always on the other side of fear."

"I believe that the UK can sustain its position as a magnet for digital investment and for tech talent."

"My ambition is for this country to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its technology leadership position and growing a diverse and inclusive skills base."

"Companies are more successful and profitable if they have diversity at the heart of their businesses."

"Let’s inspire kids in to digital, have more young women joining and staying in the tech sector & encourage diversity in the boardroom."

"Startups are uniquely positioned to embrace diversity and I think that’s because they are full of ideas, they have a mindset which is very entrepreneurial and their ideas can change the world."

"So role modelling for diversity comes from the top."

"The tone is set by the board, by the C-suite and by everyone cascading it downwards."

"It’s really important that we get that commitment from the top."

"I guess with that in mind, from a leadership perspective, the motivation levels of the team and the happiness of the end customer."

"So I believe that diversity is the only way that you can really create competitive advantage."

"It’s never too late to start the diversity and inclusion journey."

"I believe that the greatest threat to diversity is the belief that someone else will fix it."

"So on that basis, start today."

"lt has been a bit of a journey, my career, in a good way."

"I went for a promotion."

"It was promotion for a country manager position."

"I was running a very big team; hundreds of people and hundreds of thousands of dollars, actually millions, hundred millions of dollars."

"I have to say, looking back over my shoulder the person they did choose did not last very long."

"Some years later, many years later, I went back in a very big leadership position because they came looking for me."

"Our world has changed fundamentally, and it has changed overnight."

"We stand at the start of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Diversity and inclusion must be at the top of the agenda to enable recovery from the pandemic"

"I’m not massively big on history, but if you watch war films, you learn a lot about strategy there, because in order to win a war, you have to be very strategic. The tactics is the men on the front line, right? But actually, the strategy of how you’re going to win the war is the important part. And I think that’s where war films come really into play."

"I think the tactics become easy if you know the problem, if you know the why. I think that’s what are not enough marketers. I think that’s the biggest issue right now, by the way, in marketing. I think too many people are trying to battle the bottom line."

"Do you know what? People say you have to be 100 % sure in order to make a decision, right? And 100 % sure is because it’s back to your data. That’s the best way to spend our money. I always be You’ve got to be 50% sure. Sometimes you got to take a risk."

"Go and find that proposition that you literally hang your hat on and that is different. Nobody else is talking in this way. And one of the things as well, especially around search, is I remember when we started, you could either fight the data battle or the creativity battle. And data is very expensive to fight, by the way."

"I would advise the business to negotiate the terms and to have a cool-off period. Seek a trail to learn the key functionalities of the CRM. The implementation itself that can take four to six weeks so it kind of puts business off especially smaller businesses. You feel it is taking so long to get on track and to get your staff numbers working. As a result, often you tend to just settle for less to get the core working."

"The big one for us is security and compliance and ease of reporting. From the compliance perspective we can do audits. For data protection and GDPR this varies between daily reporting to every three weeks in some instances. This reporting is critical to ensure that the work process is in check, and remains compliant. Companies have to get familiar with this (compliance) language. Most CRMs do not focus on compliance, they have some features for it,but it can be done much better. Businesses focusing on compliance from the start, are much more likely to succeed."

"Our AI recruitment platform is something we want to eventually license out two competitors, as a software as a service model which is a number one growing sector in the cloud at the moment."

"Visionary Art’s roots can be traced back to the Fantastic Realist movement of Vienna, & Ernst Fuchs. A few years back, I was lucky enough to assist him painting, he’s very old now. Back in the day there was him, Salvador Dali & Matti Klarwein, wild eccentric surrealist artists hanging out. Matti Klarwein created those incredible album covers for Santana. Absolutely mind-blowing masterpiece oil paintings each one."

"I was super exited have the opportunity to experience live painting the triple goddess to Tristan’s set at Boom. It was incredible, it felt like we were all collectively with the crowd creating a spiral of positive energy swirling into space. It occured to me that most Trance Dance floors are built in the shape of a Torus, which is a template for the future renewable flow of energy according to the movie Thrive. Felt like we were co-creating magic."

"archetype Tristan can totally rock, those arms in the air peak moments at a blinding gig! He blasts into the painting in a flaming comet, a Ganesha shaped chariot, & is also held within in the feminine head of Sophia, creatrix of the universe. When we align with this power we have the power to create our lives. Ever feel like that on a dance floor?"

"The idea was to sum up the entire Way of Life of Trance music, from the Goa trance scene to festivals like Boom, Ozora & Burning man, with the influence of ancient cultures, future tech, & alien contact thrown in for good measure!"

"“I came out late, but it has always been my intention to make up for lost time”"

"I was subject to, honestly, stuff that today everybody would have been fired for. You could not get away with talking to anybody like I was spoken to or treated, but there were different norms.”"

". That’s my nature, but I’m resilient and I’m a fighter. If you cross me or I see an injustice, I will just not put up with it. That comes from my mum, who instilled: ‘Stand up for what you believe. Do not be bullied"

"I have been getting a lot of recognition, a lot of commenters out there, that enjoy seeing what I bring out,”"

"I like to hear constructive criticism because it helps build me as an artist to try different things."

"If you are losing your hair, I suggest seeing a trichologist to find out why. You can also go to the doctor and get the necessary blood tests to show what you might be deficient in. It may be as simple as low iron or vitamin D. Once you’ve been given the right advice, you can start caring for your health and your hair. For example, the Serene Scalp Densifying Collection was created to help those with fragile, thinning hair, add fullness, density and volume back to their strands."

"In humid environments, try to stay away from using scalp oil too frequently. If you have to use it, do so only once a week, wash it out, and do not keep it on the scalp. In very humid conditions, the oil creates a barrier, and the scalp’s natural microbiome will become unbalanced"

"Trends are now focusing on anti-aging for the scalp. Scalp aging can be caused by many factors, one being oxidative stress. People are now realizing that their scalp is an extension of the skin on their face, so the hair care and scalp care market will begin to draw inspiration from skincare treatments that target oxidative stress and apply similar ingredients and ideas to products for the scalp and hair."

""would absolutely have to look at options"."

"Depending on what we learn from AI . . . there may be an opportunity for BT to be even smaller by the end of the decade."

"There’s been a lot to be proud of this year, but one of the most powerful accomplishments is the progress we've made through the Homelessness Task Force."

"More than 20 individuals who were once living on the streets are now in real homes, and that shift has improved life for the entire community."

"The numbers are encouraging. We’ve gone from 30 motor vehicle thefts in 2023 to six so far this year."

"We’ve submitted our Housing Element and Fair Share Plan as required by state law. It’s posted on the city’s website so that residents can review and understand what’s being proposed."

"Right now, we’re waiting for an appraisal of the property."

"Once that’s complete, the city can move forward with plans for a sale."

"What made this possible was a state grant program that only opens up about once every 15 years."

"I have personally worked with this group to help educate the public on the benefits of waiting and I believe they will be able to collaborate with our schools to spread the message."

"It will take a partnership between parents and schools to help mitigate the effects of cell phone use among teens."

"Now that we’ve had real success in helping individuals move into stable housing, we’re turning our focus to prevention."

"I was homeless and penniless when I first started at King’s."

"I found my feet and wings, and King’s supported my accommodation for three years. ‎*Starting as a student to becoming a part of staff faculty."

"I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine."

"I also witnessed great advances in liver diseases, my chosen speciality."

"I have always felt well supported but what I have observed in boardrooms is women understating their experience and achievements. Men will traditionally overstate their experience. With AllBright we are trying to give women the space to develop that confidence and to share their experience within a supportive community.”"

"With a growing community of inspiring and connected women across the globe, we feel that there's no stopping what we can do. I think global business is waking up to the impact of having motivated and empowered women building businesses for themselves and others – and as we're half the population, that can only be a great thing."

"An understanding of the numbers is definitely important. Before becoming CEO I had worked as head of digital and strategy [for Hachette Filipacchi before the Hearst merger] so I had an understanding of operations and positioning, as well as communications and marketing. You need a good gut instinct too – and that’s important for female entrepreneurs and executives"

"I have always been a champion of women; I am the eldest of four sisters so, for me, purpose has always been around championing women. It’s not a huge surprise therefore that my first business as an entrepreneur is all about that."

"It needs strategic and far-sighted leadership. That has not existed, and it is clearly urgently required. We don't even know who is running it."

"I believe in always being disciplined; I think a little bit of self-discipline. I try and get in probably between four and seven sessions of some kind of exercise a week, I watch what I eat, limit my alcohol intake, and I try and get as much sleep as I can."

"I think you have to balance it off, I think I can be successful in my day job, and I’ll be better in my day job if I do these other things. I feel better for going to the gym in the morning and having an odd day when I do a detox, and I just feel overall better for it."

"Becoming a public business, it was a whole new learning for me. I was surrounded by the banking industry and I found it really difficult.So, to go into another world, I found that really challenging, but what I did, was thought ‘well they don’t really know my subject’! Once I understood that I knew my subject better than anyone else, the confidence came back, because who’s really going to question the fashion authority?"

"Sailing is so good for teaching resilience, teamwork and working towards a common cause. I would love it to be really accessible, ultimately giving many kids a chance to have a go. There’s a lot of children that may not be good at the usual school sports, but they could be really good at sailing. If they are given the chance to find their confidence, their passion, their purpose in life, sailing could be their thriving environment.”"

"Getting the mindset right in business and sailing starts from the top. You need to create a culture where people are not just focusing on their job, but also taking into account the context of everybody else’s. That is done through dialogue and teaching. With our sailing team on JOURNEYMAKER, our culture is that we all do it together and support each other. We all have bad days at the races and heads do go down. So, you have to call it out and you have to take action and talk about what was not happening and put it right. It is very much a learning culture."

"Business today is hugely disrupted all the time and its environment is volatile and very uncertain. Sailing is a phenomenal metaphor for having to cope, use, and thrive to win, by exploiting that volatility."

"It has a lot to do with how connected they feel and if there is a real flexible working opportunity. Women do have to ask and companies have to listen – if they remain rigid about how they see this world, they will lose women,”"

"Companies also have a role, as do leaders in organisations, to ensure you have a culture where you can speak up about it. Men in management have a very important role to play."

"We talk about generational changes, attitudes to work and the concept of a ‘worklife balance’. It isn’t just women who want change, and it isn’t always about parenthood, she suggests. “Men in their 30s and 40s have a very different attitude to work than their fathers. It’s much more about not letting one thing dominate [your life].”"

"Women must be willing to say: ‘I am good at what I do and this is how you’d have to act to keep me,’"

"“It is much harder being a leader when it’s tougher than when you were just rising. Leading in a variable environment means absorbing a lot of the uncertainty. It’s about being honest with what you say – and what you don’t say.”"

"So I did what most people never do at a really senior level, was I just thought you know what, it's time to take some time off"

"I was really focused on making sure we could have as many family-friendly policies as we could, because I had the experience of being a mum, having to come back [to work] and knowing how it made some of the new mums feel,”"

"Employers should consider giving furlough to parents – normally women – who are on the brink of burn out. People are telling me they are on the brink of quitting and if we aren’t careful when all of this is over it will be like the 1950s in terms of women’s careers”."

"My view was if we do that we will encourage more women to come back and more women to be more senior, and stay with us through their career, and it worked"

"If you haven’t got a job that is flexible in terms of the hours you can do through the day, or a company that isn’t flexible, then some women won’t be able to work during this three month period [of lockdown].”"

"You get to a stage where you say 'I've done my piece. I've grown quite a lot of shareholder value, I've done enough. And actually it needs to be a little bit more about me now.'”"

"The key challenge for higher education is to remain relevant in a changing world. We need to partner with employers to ensure that we are developing the talent that they are seeking. We know from employers that many of the key skills they are looking for are so-called ‘soft’ skills (teamwork, awareness and so on), which is otherwise known as emotional labour."

"Other challenges include maintaining quality and engagement in online learning environments, protecting student and faculty data from cyber threats, ensuring academic integrity, and updating curricula and training educators to keep pace with technological changes."

"We live in a world where, as a result of innovation, cognitive labour (which progressively replaced physical labour from the mid-19th century) is now being replaced itself by artificial intelligence"

"We all have the opportunity to make a difference and strive towards net zero. For example, we will be looking at using advanced technologies such as Digital Twins and pilots of large-scale battery storage to help us reach our goals."

"Of course, there is always room for innovation, which means we will continue to develop our technologies in a number of different ways in the future. This is one of the huge benefits of our world-renowned Innovation Festival, which has seen us working with partners on technologies such as Digital Twins and Underground Mapping to ensure that we are doing the very best for our customers"

"Within our business we have a whole range of different people doing different jobs. Our frontline operational workers, for example, have continued their work in the field and on site throughout the pandemic to keep the water flowing for our customers. However, we are currently evaluating what it will look like for our teams who have been working from home."

"Back then, sites were solely focused on price and didn’t mention the features of the policy. This meant that customers might’ve been getting cheap quotes, but weren’t offered much information on the policy and could’ve found that they were missing out on features that they wanted. I decided that I could either stay where I was, or I could start something new and make a difference. The result was Gocompare.com."

"Young people are growing up with technology as a second nature and the education system has gone from an archaic chalk and blackboard lecture, to an interactive experience that I feel is helping young people develop key skills."

"The needs of our customers have underpinned everything that we have done, and are still the most important influence on our company. This belief has not only helped us get where we are today, but has also made us the only price comparison website invited to be a member of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) thanks to our focus on transparency and customer care."

"To succeed in business you need to be brave enough to ask the right questions and talk to the right people, it’s the only way you can learn to be better at what you do."

"I think that some women become transfixed with the ‘glass ceiling’. I’ve always thought that if you believe there is a glass ceiling, you’ll spend your life on the floor looking up at it. Anybody can be successful in any industry as long as they work hard and are nosey and noisy enough"

"If you’re thinking of starting your own online business the most important thing you can do is research the market. The internet is a fantastic tool for identifying a target market and checking out the competition."

"“I don’t feel there is at all a muttering that I’m not passionate enough about the art form"

"“I feel there is too much put on this idea of an innate collision course between your business and artistic side. They are not mutually exclusive"

"I have done a lot of work in how to handle and lead through that. I still consider that more important than a long experience of artistic administration.”"

"When I talk to our elderly patrons I say I am partly here because I want this art form to exist in 30 years and be as strong as thriving as it can.""

"I would never describe myself as an opera buff because I work with people who truly are"

"Working particularly in this building I would never describe myself as an opera buff because I work with people who truly are.”"

"It is a good return, but it also gives us a constituency, which means we're not dependent on government funding or grant."

"Water and sanitation might not be a priority for grant makers in a particular year."

"We want to keep that unrestricted percentage at about 65 per cent because it gives us a huge amount of strategic flexibility and a greater degree of certainty."

"We have a very diverse portfolio of income."

"We work a lot with communities, we do a huge amount of advertising to get public support and our database of supporters has increased to about 375,000 people who bring in not only financial support but also wider support."

"We looked at them for compliance, attitude, how they kept abreast of what was going on in the market."

"They responded to the criticism and whether we felt they would deal with out supporters in the same way as we would directly."

"We think opt-in should be regular and unambiguous."

"All the words that are in the European legislation, but we don't want to annoy our supporters by asking them to opt in when they have been supporting us for years and it would seem peculiar."

"I assumed they wanted another engineer in the post."

"I was told that wasn’t the case, they wanted someone to lead on women’s issues, girls’ empowerment, people’s rights and community mobilisation."

"On that basis I was very interested but I knew I was coming down with a terrible case of malaria and had to get my application in within a couple of days while I could still function."

"So I was absolutely delighted to be offered the job."

"What I love about WaterAid is that while we are absolutely passionately committed to doing everything we can in terms of poverty eradication."

"We think change can often happen through humour, so every year we try and do stuff on World Toilet Day."

"We are good at using humour to draw attention to a serious fact, that girls are dropping out of school because they have nowhere to wash and change when they are menstruating and it’s a really taboo subject."

"I took opportunities and I took risks, and I wasn’t afraid to try different things."

"Detention centres are either former Category B prisons, or built to the same spec. Many who have been in prison before say that the centres are worse. The men I visit are three to a room with an open toilet. There is a lot of noise and aggression. I think the place dehumanises everyone.”"

"Many people are scared to talk openly, but we can be independent listeners who are not part of the system, not trying to seek the truth of their story or question their motivations, or their past. We’re just taking what they say at face value.”"

"So it’s perhaps not for you, if you’re the kind of person who likes to find quick solutions. But I realised that, just by turning up, I am showing care that counts for a lot. I once had an email from one man who said, ‘Thank you for visiting today — not many people would waste their time with someone like me,’ which revealed a lot about his low self-esteem, but also about how he valued the time I gave him.”"

"You have to be able to offload yourself. You need a good support network around you, because you will get close to very distressing situations of extreme stress and families torn apart.”"

"“All too often the way we look at health is disjointed and we tend to compartmentalise, despite the fact it is all connected. The link between mental health and gut health in women is ignored, which is why the science-backed probiotics in the range balance the whole system and bring a holistic approach to mind and body health.”"

"It doesn’t matter if you’re a female developer, designer or an accountant, there is no reason why you should feel inferior to men who do the same job. Your gender doesn’t affect your professional qualities."

"I started specialising in cold cases in the firm that I co-founded, Forensic Alliance, back in the late nineties."

"It was a sort of happy accident when I look back on it now."

"Prior to setting up this company I had been doing quite a lot of defence work which included supporting lawyers representing people accused of crimes when there is forensic evidence against them."

"I began to notice that standards for police were slipping slightly and I couldn’t help but think there might be a better way of doing things."

"I set up Forensic Alliance specifically for the police and one or two forces, particularly local ones, took us up on this and it gave us an opportunity to show just how good, imaginative and different we could be."

"The cold case work I have done has mainly been for the police, who tend to get in touch with me when they’re reviewing a case after a lapse of few years and who think there might be some new technology in the forensic line that might help."

"Been approached by the families of victims or the lawyers representing them and so we’ve started reinvestigating something because of that."

"You need to be briefed on everything properly by the police because usually the crime will have happened years beforehand."

"You need to study photographs of the crime scene, and read all relevant expert reports and eye witness statements taken at the time."

"The next thing is to find out what exhibits might still be available to examine in the case, and that can be really difficult."

"There are several cases that we’ve worked on where we’ve been back and forth to the Forensic Science Service (FSS)."

"We haven’t got anything else’ but where we know they must still have something."

"I wanted a more immediate audience for my efforts, and one day a friend of mine showed me an interesting advert in the paper for the Forensic Science Service ."

"People come to us from around the world for help with their forensic services."

"We can’t do anything alone."

"Solving crime scenes takes the work and expertise of many people, not just me."

"It was his family who commissioned the work because they couldn’t believe he would have committed suicide."

"I hadn’t expected to be called out so I was wearing oversized clothes that belonged to my boss."

"Walking through a muddy area with massive boots until we came to the murder scene, he victim was a young woman."

"I was worried that I’d faint or throw up but I had to be professional."

"I owe it to everyone else who works on a case, and to those people who have been killed, to do the best job I can."

"People always hate when scientists use the word ‘imaginative’."

"They think you’ve been inventing your results."

"But it is critical."

"There were only about six people in the world who cared what I was doing."

"There was a marble basin in one of the bathrooms we did all our blood grouping in."

"We used the ballroom for our big X-ray crystallography machine."

"There was so much to get through, police were sending whole wardrobes of clothing."

"With everything, I’ve always just thought I’m gonna make this bloody work."

"Just became incredibly tense, his knuckles were white and he was frozen in the doorway in the house."

"I thought, oh Jesus, he could take it out on the messenger."

"There are one or two things we don’t want people to think too deeply about."

"It would make our job a lot more difficult."

"Maybe we just keep that one up our sleeve."

"He’s just a great, very funny guy, and he has a singular way of approaching film. The biggest thing for me was having to guide him through the casting process for a narrative film, because he was used to doing his own thing with documentaries."

"He was very receptive to what I had to say, and I was very receptive to what he had to say. We tried to cast people who [didn’t look] too contemporary, because it is a period piece. So I helped guide him through marrying a look with an acting skill."

"Aunjanue is great. We were very lucky to get her. We wanted to have her in the film because she’s just so fresh."

"Be prepared to leave it in the room, because you can overthink it. I’d say to young actors to look at the work of great actors. If there’s someone you like, take a look at their entire career and how they’ve grown."

"I had been to a NASCAR race once and I was like, ‘yeah, this is not for me"

"My passion was around using financial statements as the scoreboard of your business to increase profitability and improve cash flow and decrease taxation"

"The racing department was just hemorrhaging money,"

"how is it possible that the number one most prestigious team in Porsche racing is owned by a woman, and that is something that isn't even on my trajectory’"

"“I am interested in exploring narratives that reflect the diversity of experiences of the African diaspora. I believe that we have a lens that is unique because of our cultural duality and we do not see enough of those across the breadth of output in the European cinema space.”"

"Team work makes the dream work, so choose the right collaborators."

"I really believe you make a different contribution in different roles in the NHS."

"I have made my contribution at the centre, and it is time for me to go back and run a big and exciting organisation."

"You could forget about the building and concentrate on just putting on a great show."

"But if the building starts falling down, you’d regret that decision."

"I think what’s been clear is that Wes and I have really tried to work closely in this much more ‘one team’ way over the past nine months, which was different to how things had worked in the past."

"I’ve done the job I needed to do, which was to lead the NHS through the pandemic, to lead my colleagues ."

"Through the real hard yards of recovery, stabilisation and gradual improvement and to put the foundations in place for the 10 year plan."

"We know the unacceptable violent and racist events in so many parts of the country will be affecting many of our staff, service users and their families."

"HPFT is a place where everyone is valued and respected racist behaviour and attitudes."

"Discrimination, have no place in HPFT or in wider society."

"The suffering of the people of Southport, and others touched by the violence there, is unfathomable."

"It will inevitably take a toll on those NHS staff involved in the response."

"I know from my time at Guy’s and St Thomas’ how hard incidents like this can be for those treating victims and supporting families."

"I can only imagine how much more affecting it has been for those treating children."

"We will make sure colleagues get any support they need."

"There are other things that have sustained the NHS."

"One of them is stoicism, that great British trait of carrying on through adversity."

"People coming from across the globe to become vital colleagues, with almost 200 nationalities represented in the NHS workforce today."

"The professionalism, too, of the NHS staff in Southport and elsewhere who are dealing with the consequences, and of course those in our police."

"The more that we can do to encourage vaccination."

"We will require both a reduction in the total number of people waiting and taking more people off the waiting list and treating them."

"This year, it’s really been about maturing and growing those services."

"The thing that we haven’t been able to do is fix some of the underlying capacity challenges."

"Given the level of demand on our services, and given that there is still clearly an underlying level of fragility in the service."

"We have reasonably regular reports of things like bits of ceilings that will develop a crack, sewage pipes that will break, CT scanners that will break down, all the normal wear and tear of a building."

"There’s a huge question for entrepreneurs when they’re raising funds as to whether they take ‘strategic money’ – that is money from a corporate that has an interest in your business, either because of what your business does or doesn’t do, or whether it takes them into a new area. But I had that decision very much baked into the growth journey.”"

"It isn’t signed until the day it’s signed. There’s technical stuff that can really trip you up and the devil is in the detail. I’ve made mistakes when I’ve been in a rush – and I make a lot fewer now. You need someone at your elbow saying ‘don’t sign that, it’s not right"

"This wasn’t my first rodeo; I’d had other exits.” Previously, she’d co-founded and sold PR group Mantra for several million in 2007, and went on to co-found and exit Maidthorn Partners before starting Love Home Swap in 2011."

"There might be all sorts of obstacles, there might be legal documents you’re not aware of. That’s why having good advisors around who’ve been through this a number of times is invaluable.”"

"I started fundraising for Kidney Research UK after my transplant. It was my way of giving back because I found it really difficult emotionally and psychologically to say thank you to the donor family who had lost their loved one. I raised money at first by doing one of the charity’s Bridges Walks and then on my kidney transplant anniversary, I would do an event with family and friends at my house and raise money through that.”"

"They said it meant a lot to them as it reminded them of their purpose and end goal. It was nice to hear that and to see their passion in terms of how they’re trying to find a better way of dialysing or finding medication that has less impact on the body.”"

"When it’s your own story, you live it, you breathe it and it becomes normal to you. When I speak to people I’m very open and frank about what’s happened to me, but when I see the impact it has on others, it makes me feel emotional myself. I realise how much I can help by telling my story.”"

"I showed them a photograph of me when I was at my most ill and they couldn't believe I’m the person in the picture. I went on that journey of nearly dying and then going on to have a child. I had my daughter, Aliyah in 2016 even though I was told I couldn’t have children. I’ve beaten the odds, basically.”"

"I understand how important it is for people to see themselves and their communities represented at senior levels of an organisation. Since coming onto the board, I have been able to advise Greater Sport on what they can do to be more inclusive, and act as a spokesperson to previously excluded communities to ensure that Greater Sport is as accessible to all."

"My advice to other leaders in the private sector would absolutely be to volunteer and put themselves forward for these opportunities in sport."

"The role with Greater Sport particularly appealed as it operated within my local community and I felt I could really help the organisation reach some of the communities in the area that had traditionally been harder to reach. The opportunity to drive this change in my local area was one I jumped at."

"I had never looked at a business newspaper like the Financial Times."

"Sometimes such a lateral entry is also an advantage."

"The individual parts are always the same, but someone may have shaken them together overnight."

"When I was sent on a management skills training course for one of my previous employers, I realized that people are motivated by very different things."

"It's self-reliance and independence that count."

"We each have to find out for ourselves what we like and good, and then simply more of it do."

"Maybe that's because we have a lot of employees on site in China."

"That is why we already dealt with COVID in January 2020."

"At first we saw it as a regional problem, but when it turned into a global pandemic, we had some training."

"We rolled out Zoom across the company in just two weeks."

"And when we sent almost all of our employees to work from home, I was impressed by how flexible our employees were."

"We haven't actually had any failures we only owe that to the commitment of our people."

"If we really crack this, if we get this right, if we truly have a diverse culture and inclusive culture, that eventually will lead you to a sense of belonging and belonging is about not feeling like you're in an alien environment."

"I look back on my own journey, that feeling of being an outsider was definitely there for a big part of the beginning part of that journey."

"I didn't have a family background in financial services or indeed in business."

"It was just totally alien to the environment I grew up in."

"When I look now at my peers and my cohort, I could reel off in financial services, half a dozen female CEOs right now today, without thinking too hard about it, 20 years ago, that was not the case."

"Analysis Each step and then try and take a really lateral view."

"What is it that you are missing? Start with the premise that it's not working."

"If it’s not working, what would that look like? Does that then look like what you already have?"

"One of the challenges is how you can get something that is meaningful and relevant to every single piece of that quite complex puzzle, which is why things like targets are quite difficult to set in isolation."

"They will look very different for a different company that has a different geographic footprint. Even within the UK, that's true."

"You have to do a kind of audit of all your congregation’s needs."

"It’s always important to me that any theology we do."

"There’s fantastic work being done at both national and diocesan level."

"Younger people and children ex­­peri­­­­ence and consume reality differ­ently today."

"I’m fascinated by what it means to be an embodied person in Western society."

"It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history."

"Rural women are the backbone for families, communities and nations, but they're suffering the worst impacts of climate change and conflict and go unheard in legislation and remain unprotected and unsupported.""

"The world has changed, we realise we must get ourselves out there more. Word of mouth only goes so far, but if you don't have a social presence, then to some extent you don't exist."

"It is the desire to satisfy people and I can’t always be sure I've done enough or got it right. Sometimes it is impossible, but I own my mistakes, which I think is important as well."

"I’m delighted to be handing over the role of Chair at ACL to an excellent successor in Lesley Cowley. Her strong track record working in bodies with important public roles gives Lesley the right background to take over chairing the Board of ACL as the company prepares for continued regulatory change and commercial growth.”"

"I’m excited to be joining ACL’s Board to help guide the company as it manages the pressures of coordination at a growing number of constrained airports while staying at the forefront of technical progress and customer service.”"

"As we look forward to welcoming Lesley Cowley to ACL’s Board, I’d like to record my sincere thanks to Jeff Halliwell for the role he’s played as Chair since 2013, guiding the Board through a period of major development for ACL and its governance.”"

"It is a practical statement and something we try to live by because it can only mean something if it is adopted by the front line. It has a bearing on everything, from how our corporate strategy is driven to how we decide agenda items for meetings, because we are focused on making the customer the centre of everything."

"It is one way of taking people right to the heart of what the business is about,""

"If people find Bupa to be an uncompassionate machine, then our strategy has failed and we have wasted our marketing money.""

"Having four fingers and 13 toes never stopped me doing what I love’"

"One of the things I really enjoy is talking to young people. I give talks in schools, and to Brownie groups as well as book talks."

"I have two fingers coming from each shoulder and my legs are foreshortened above where the average person’s knees would be with little feet.”"

"It’s vital to be a role model. To me it’s important to answer questions; it’s an opportunity to be honest and that’s good for all disabled people.”"

"Charities need that single view of their donor, to understand when and how they donate, what their preferences are from a communications perspective –essentially – what will help turn them into loyal and regular donors, so increasing funds"

"Charities had to get smarter and have stepped up to the challenge"

"Our job is to make them as successful as possible. After all the charity sector is an important sector for society as a whole.”"

"As a board member, you need to spend time in the business. It’s a blunt instrument, but how much time directors spend engaging with the business and its stakeholders is a powerful indicator."

"And I’m very clear: everyone around the board table needs to take personal accountability for the whole. That means leaning into conversations outside your area of expertise, never being afraid to ask the "dumb or awkward" questions, and thinking systemically. It’s up the chair to foster an environment that encourages that sort of approach."

"there’s one question I always ask the board: "If this board knocked it out of the park over the next three years, what would we have done?" It stimulates a healthy debate which helps us align around a shared vision of what great would look like over the coming years."

"Know what you don’t know… and then find someone who does."

"The cost of public transport. It’s so much more expensive here than other European cities and it’s a real challenge for my team when you think about the cost of coming into the office. Everyone has to get up and go to work and the cost of transport shouldn’t factor in, but unfortunately it does, which is one of the many reasons why we support hybrid working."

"There’s so much more support nowadays and the environment is much more open to starting a business, especially straight out of university."

"What’s been really great is to see how the culture of entrepreneurship has changed so much over the years. When I first started out, it was hard to find the right support or to meet with other like-minded entrepreneurs"

"We’ve done lots of work working closely with government on CIPREG projects. We are about to break ground on the hospital project and with other projects there’s been some challenges in delivering them. But the way that’s progressed and the additional funding that we’ve got which is non ODA is a really positive sign.”"

"It is just amazing that we are at the stage to have a successful evaluation. We’ve got a bit of work to do, but for a small territory with a small number of people, the amount of work that we galvanised together and pulling in the new legislation – it was a partnership with government to get all of that in place. In terms of lasting impact for Montserrat, I think things like the CFATF make a big difference.”"

"I’ve been a real champion of mental health and safeguarding and I know it’s a difficult conversation to have and it’s very hard for people, but I’m really proud of the work that my team, all of the ministries and the police have done together."

"There’s a real partnership approach and a real respect for the work that gets done here with the team in finance – how they manage the funding and the projects and programmes, and there’s a recognition for how hard it is to get those things done."

"Montserrat is the gift that keeps on giving. Whenever new team members joined and they would say ‘I didn’t finish my work.’ I would say you’re never going to finish your work"

"We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want."

"I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever."

"What you make as a designer is an expression of yourself. I love music and painting and I prefer life in the country."

"No matter how carefully patterns for leather goods are planned, high quality, unused, freshly tanned and dyed leather falls to the cutting room floor as seemingly unusable pieces."

"We then plan our cuts carefully, ensuring that we produce as little of our own off-cuts as possible. Each component of our system is then individually cut before it is hand woven, piece by piece, into whatever it is we need."

"Unfortunately, we live in wasteful times. This means the list of materials we would like to rescue is incredibly long and represents millions of tonnes of valuable material. We know that our particular style of alchemy is a powerful solution for all kinds of materials but we have to focus. Right now, we are committed to solving the leather issue."

"I am obsessive about customer research, personalisation and in-store consultations to get customers to try something new. Oh, and not wasting time on 150-slide presentations. It’s about distillation.”"

"We need to coach women not to be emotional but calm and rational. I just said calmly, ‘I know I am not earning as much as XX. Can you help me sort it out?’ And it was addressed very quickly.”"

"Targeting and understanding what they want is what counts. Every month I go shopping with our customers, we’ll go together to different stores. I’ll watch as they feel fabrics, appreciate design… This customer listening is crucial.”"

"Unfortunately there are stereotypes. If, as women, we keep it really fact-based and calm, it will lead to people reacting to us positively… You want to encourage somebody to want to be with you and on your side. Not to be accusatorial.”"

"There’s an endless movement and evolution in the use of these homes. They defy the notions of permanence."

"Prince Philip used to call Firle Place the prettiest little house he ever knew."

"I would say that it’s been a labour of love, except that it’s felt like more love than labour."

"When I first arrived here, I felt as if [Haddon Hall] were asleep. In a deep, deep sleep."

"As they’ve worked their way through the house, the discoveries have been extraordinary: … ‘even old nails and gunshots and bullets. And I think there have been a few skulls,’ adds Gabrielle."

"Once again Haddon got shut up. The family used it for weekends, shooting parties, summer follies, picnics..."

"The charity’s purpose is to encourage critical thinking and empathy to reduce bullying in schools around gender/sexuality; they achieve this by taking role models into schools to enable open and honest conversations which break down prejudice."

"Turn your emails off, your phone off. You are entitled to have a life."

"Don’t be afraid of difficult conversations. Have them, but with a smile on."

"If you are dreading going to work on a Monday morning for a long period time, change your job"