"If you could see three disparate indications of something new, and it didn’t matter if you saw it at a dinner party or on a bus, but if you saw three things that all pointed in one direction, you had a trend."

"We were taught not to show up unless we had three new trends, so I learned quickly to observe what was going on and to recognise patterns"

"The consumer wanted something new, but the stores were selling something old."

"As long as I can remember I have always been thinking about magic in life and how things can be transformed."

"That was defining, I think. I have always felt like a citizen of the world, with a keen sense of what unites us. Had I never moved as a child, maybe I may not have been as entrepreneurial"

"And I thought, oh, wouldn’t it be amazing, if you could combine the impulse and the marketing of what was new, and allow the consumer to just click and magically receive something on their doorstep?"

"Sustainability is woven into everything we do as a business, from product development to supplier sourcing and auditing, packaging choices and giving, to operations and logistics."

"I just never wavered in my belief,” she says. At the start, she adds: “I was a journalist. I had no business experience. But I did have innate people skills.” Her 15 years at Net-A-Porter, she says, “were my MBA. Very early on I realised that nobody was approaching the opportunity to serve consumers remotely and digitally in the way we were"

"I truly believe that it’s through a holistic approach that we can drive real change and also support in educating our customers about the interconnected ecosystem making up their health."

"We are seeing businesses in areas where consumers have previously been ignored, such as inclusive sizing"

". Nurture your curiosity and explore any ideas you have. Some of the best ideas come from when you question the world around you. Not accepting how things work and having an open curiosity is what sets some of the best entrepreneurs apart from others."

"I came up with the name Imaginary when I left Net-A-Porter and I needed an email address, so I thought I’d better set up an LLC, though I didn’t know what it would be"

"My journey began when I first developed IBS whilst in my early 20s. I spent a lot of my time (and money), trying different natural and pharmaceutical products to deal with my symptoms, which only made me feel worse. I couldn't find products that worked for me, or more importantly, that I wanted to take - that was really where the seed of The Nue Co. came from."

"I basically looked at magazines with my mother every month. I remember it really well, sitting on the sofa and looking at Vogue magazine"

"That was one of those things I did with her. I also always loved watching films, the old black-and-white movies and seeing all the fashion in those, that’s what sparked my interest."

"One of the hardest things when our company went into administration was that someone else could use my name."

"I would like to say my husband and the girls, but they are not my belongings, so my home, because that is where Charles i and all my treasured memories of family."

"There have been so many and I hope so many yet to come, but the Gap ad I did in the ‘80s was my personal fiftee minutes, especially chasing it round Trafalgar Square when it was on a bus, and then it was ten buses all together—genius."

"Human nature puts people on a pedestal and we like having someone to look up to."

"Tell your parents that you love them very much, keep your photo albums up to date, don’t be shy as no one is looking at you, don’t be angry, don’t throw away all your clothes from the ‘80s, and buy that hotel in Miami Beach when it was offered to you in the ‘80s."

"When the credit crunch came, it seemed like a perfect storm."

"No one diet is more popular than another. It is all down to personal preference."

"It is important for us to find a form of exercise we enjoy so that we keep doing it."

"The advent of the internet, internet shopping and mobile phones all mean that we can run our lives without moving around as much as we used to. I really don’t know where it will end unless people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing."

"Selecting the best eating plan to help you lose weight is very much down to the individual."

"But everything is for a reason and through suffering gallstones I discovered the hip and thigh diet. I think the Lord put his hand on me. That I discovered low fat, I honestly believe came from the Lord. I can't deny that. I was chosen to spread the word."

"I think mine is more acceptable, it rolls off the tongue better. But it certainly reduces the whole area. More from the seat than the hips, to be honest."

"I did more classes around the county and it just grew"

"because I'm from a family where food was a very important and enticing temptation. But I didn't enjoy it much at home. Only when I left I enjoyed it, when it wasn't prepared by my mother. I became a compulsive eater – it was gluttony. Before I was born again."

"It's a day which the team and I have worked incredibly hard to try to avoid but the board and I believe that this is the most responsible course of action to take."

"My heart goes out to the staff affected, and we are talking to them today to try to work out how best we can help them"

"I wasn't sorry to lose my SAGG [Slimming and Good Grooming organisation] back in the 80s"

"It went from talking about how to make the most of yourself to actually doing some exercise"

"It'd been a very fraught involvement. I'd worked very hard, my first marriage was wrecked. I gave everything and I got gallstones."

"The wonderful thing is that most of my class have been coming to me for at least 30 years, if not 40 years."

"The pervasive presence of AI-generated content, coupled with its inherent limitations such as hallucinations and biases, has compelled a broader public, particularly younger generations, to become more aware of the critical need for information verification."

"The digital ecosystem acts as a powerful amplifier of crisis fatigue. The sheer volume, velocity, and repetition of online crisis news overwhelm individuals' limited cognitive capacities, leading to information overload and a degradation of attention spans."

"Crisis fatigue contributes to declining public and political participation, as individuals opt for news avoidance, thereby becoming less informed about critical issues essential for democratic engagement."

"By providing a readily accessible tool within the X ecosystem, Grok encourages users to query and verify information instantly. While its occasional inaccuracies underscore the ongoing need for human discernment, these very imperfections serve as a powerful, albeit unintended, educational mechanism, training users to be more critical consumers of digital content."

"Online reputation is an indispensable economic asset, directly impacting organizational value through a complex interplay of digital perceptions."

"There's a positive link between a favorable digital presence and key economic outcomes, including increased sales, enhanced brand equity, improved stock market performance, and stronger talent acquisition capabilities. This influence is multifaceted, driven by the collective power of online reviews, the dynamic nature of social media sentiment, the pervasive reach of search engine visibility, and the strategic narratives shaped through digital content and public relations."

"Organizations that prioritize cultivating and protecting their digital perception are better positioned to build enduring customer trust, attract investment, and secure a sustainable competitive advantage in the evolving digital landscape."

"For the first time in human history we wouldn’t be resource constrained. And I think that could be amazing new era for humanity where it’s not zero-sum, right? I have this land, you don’t have it. Or if the tigers have their forest, then the local villages can’t, what are they going to use? I think that this will help a lot. No, it won’t solve all problems because there’s still other human foibles that will still exist, but it will at least remove one, I think one of the big vectors, which is scarcity of resources, including land and more materials and energy."

"And we should ... call it ... this kind of radical abundance era, where there’s plenty of resources to go around. Of course the next big question is making sure that that’s fairly, shared fairly and everyone in society benefits from that."

"I think some of the biggest problems that face us today as a society, whether that's climate or disease, will be helped by AI solutions. I'd be very worried about society today if I didn't know that something as transformative as AI was coming down the line."

"Step one, solve intelligence; step two, use it to solve everything else."