"I’m not allowed to say I’m a lousy engineer because the founders I met this morning who are in the audience, and thank you, StartX founders told me."

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

"You have to do tough things in business, but doing them compassionately is very important to me."

"Much depends on what you call a top job."

"I truly believe in benevolence, kindness, compassion, and empathy."

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

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

"Another is the business mix."

"That was like the number one concern, how is this girl ever gonna find her husband."

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

"I respect what each person brings-their values, beliefs, and individuality."

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

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

"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."

"It really matters that I set a brand of leadership that’s about compassion and empathy."

"It’s bigger than that."

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

"I must say I’m really happy to be here with my family."

"How do I ensure I make it easier for those who come after me."

"You’ve got to do tough things in business, but doing it compassionately is very important."

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

"The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of Commons."

"I'd studied what I wanted (philosophy and history) while ensuring I did the maths for arts students course."

"I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York."

"When I left Cambridge for what was then the top name in mergers and acquisitions in the City."

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

"I'd never heard of the glass ceiling, still less the concrete one."

"There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma."

"It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly."

"I learnt then that you can fail and you don't die."

"Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away."

"over my dead body."

"That's what you do after dinner."

"I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do."

"I just felt like it was time."

"We are also high on ethics and integrity, so we want to do it in the right way."

"AI supports human creators and creations rather than taking away what they bring, so skillfully and masterfully core to who we are at Chanel."

"You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they require very long-term choices and long-term plans"

"I don't that ever to go."

"The experience taught her a valuable lesson."

"My husband and both my boys are here. *I’m pretty sure they never watched any of the links I sent them."

"I truly believe in benevolence, in kindness, in compassion, in empathy."

"Lift as you climb has become a huge mantra for me."

"It will not be religious about it."

"Never say that again."

"I listen to every voice in the room."

"it's so important that we keep the ethics and integrity of what we are doing with AI."

"I do think number one in my mind is to keep a relentless focus on human creation."