"We will invest in our infrastructure, risk management and controls to ensure that we operate in a safe and sound manner and serve our clients and customers with excellence"

"Our employees have then rewarded us incredibly because, secure in that and knowing that they were going to be okay, then meant that they would focus on our clients and look after them too"

"I knew it was going to be multiple years and I knew I had to get a move on: to be bold around it and take tough decisions that hadn’t been made before, and to make investments that were going to be hard for the bottom line for a couple of years but would then bear fruit"

"If we didn't put our people's health and safety first ... I think we would have done a very poor job managing the bank"

"That philosophy very much guided me to start thinking what are the things that would equip me better for a more senior role further down the path"

"We've been in the midsts of a health crisis, and if we didn't put our people's health and safety first and understand what's going on in their lives, honestly, I think we would have done a very poor job managing the bank through the crisis"

"Having experience of different parts of the bank gives you a lot of courage and conviction, to get clarity quickly about what needs to be done and stick to the plan, even if it’s difficult"

"Your career is going to be measured in decades, and you'll probably have many careers in your life, so make sure that you really enjoy each period of your life and make the most of it"

"The advice to everyone is, you can have it all, but don't expect to have it at exactly the same time"

"Don't try and achieve everything at the same time and put so much pressure on yourself"

"Our folk here are not shy about telling you what you need to do when you ask them"

"That was a game-changing piece of advice for me, because then I started doing completely different jobs and ones that weren't necessarily logical to most people's thinking"

"There are a lot more things coming off the to-do list than getting added to it. We can see it delivering better outcomes and starting to improve efficiency. There’s been a huge lift done, but now we’re in the phase when you’re starting to get things closed"

"As long as you do something to improve today and make it a little better than yesterday, you’re going to be successful every day. Just show up and do something you’re passionate about"

"Giving up and not striving enough to achieve your goals under any circumstances"

"Being positive, as it leads to a healthy mind and body"

"My kids. Watching them grow gives me utmost happiness. Walking into office and seeing smiling employees motivates me to keep doing good work"

"There is no such thing as a perfect work-life balance. It’s about what you want to focus on and prioritising. When I’m at work, I’m a hundred per cent invested in it, and when I’m at home, I don’t think about work"

"Keep a keen eye on small victories as in the long run they lead to bigger gains"

"There is no way to define and measure success or failure. Success for one is failure for another. Being successful or failing are subjective and not always black and white, at least in my opinion. I don’t see failure as an inability to succeed, but a different experience from the ideal. Every experience is a learning one, what is important is to try and not make the same mistake twice"

"Entrepreneurship anyway is not an easy way of life, whether you are a man or a woman"

"I love the story of Indra Nooyi being asked to get milk"

"If you hear success stories, you are more likely to replicate that, she said – but that does not mean you could slack on hard work or preparation"

"We are confident that our capital efficiency and execution will make this our last fund raise before we become profitable with the eventual IPO in 2017"

"The most important thing is to understand the goals and issues of the customers and work through them. Often hard work can solve most problems as well as some real willingness to try"

"The only way to take the common man online was to make it resemble the local market,” Radhika told Tech In Asia. Four years on, we have about 350,000 small and medium sellers on the platform, and 14 million registered users"

"When I hire people, I look for domain knowledge and passion. One of the things that helped us at ShopClues was that each one of us knew what our jobs were"

"Being an entrepreneur is itself a journey of challenges and there can never be a rule book to tackling them. Everyone faces some challenges in their lives and they have to handle it to the best of their abilities"

"The biggest challenge for the next generation of women is to turn these generational expectations on their ear. Hopefully in the future generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender"

"There is some crazy pressure on women, and on men, to almost be superwoman or superman, and that's just not realistic"

"The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can’t see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own"

"Unfortunately there’s no easy way to get there…Of course, time is money. But that’s the way to go – hard work, focus, and specialization, and then no one can catch you"

"“I encourage you to also think very, very carefully when you’re making an investment decision that in fact that decision is really a need you’re filling that you believe in. Don’t just go with everybody else. Don’t just watch a PowerPoint like a dog watching television. Make sure it makes sense…The focus needs to be where you can add competitive value to your customer and have competitive advantage"

"More and more of our customers are not only moving into the infrastructure cloud, not only the database cloud, not even only the applications cloud, but even the vertical applications cloud"

"Many of them learned that lesson during COVID,” Catz said, “but were afraid, to some extent, to move all the way in. So they started in one place, and now they’ve built that confidence and they’re going to go all the way"

"People are saying, ‘I have to get in there or I’m going to be left out!’ And so yes, they’re being bold, and they’re watching others be bold, and that is really encouraging them"

"Think about it: in the shopping world, we’ve been in the 21st century for a long time–they’re always recommending that next thing you should buy. But in healthcare? Nope! It’s still stuck in typing all the data into the system like the old days"

"And that has been a real passion for the whole company, and we’ve put a lot of energy into it and I think a lot of our employees are very excited about being part of it because as much as we love to make shopping more efficient, or running a giant utility more efficient — and all of that is very important, just like helping a bank be better and more efficient — but when you’re in healthcare, you’re actually saving lives"

"Anyone who goes to the hospital or a doctor, you see that — as great as our physicians are and our nurses are and the equipment, it’s all amazing — there are still a lot of doctors typing into things and spending a lot of their time doing that instead of spending the time with the patient"

"My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning. That ultimately brought me to Oracle"

"In fact, anytime you stop, your competitors are going to pass you"

"And one of the reasons that businesses succeed is when they’re adaptable and when they’re absorbing those new technologies. But those that sort of stick with what they have? They get passed over"

"Oracle's technology and business have never been stronger. And our breathtaking growth rate points to an even more prosperous future. At this time of strength is the right moment to pass the CEO role to the next generation of capable executives. Congratulations Clay and Mike"

"Transforming yourself and modernizing yourself — that’s not a destination, it’s a constant journey"

"And by the way, this is true not only in companies — whole civilizations survive or disappear because of whether they’re adaptable to new conditions and new capabilities, and those that really take advantage of them are going to prosper"

"And today we’re seeing that. We’re seeing this incredible prosperity and improvement in productivity, in capability, in really meeting customer expectations and exceeding them. And that’s what we’re pushing forward with"

"You want to make a transition like this when things are great"

"But now we can offer a complete system that just listens to that entire interaction and records it and transcribes it and gives recommendations to the physicians — what an incredible time saver! Instead of having doctors spend time putting data into the system, you actually have the system help the physicians figure out what’s best for you"

"The reality is that industrial companies and governments and other types of large organizations are all realizing that they cannot waste resources. They have to use all of their resources to drive a better customer experience, better employee experience, and better supplier experience"

"I come from Wall Street, and you’ll never see me do a PowerPoint because I’m all about Excel spreadsheets…If it’s not in the numbers, I don’t care how strategic it is, it doesn’t play out"