"I had many conversations with him during the next few months [in 1930], and was struck both by his acute intelligence and his energy. There was a moment later in the year when I was myself tempted to work with his New Party, for there were many points of his programme which seemed to me at once reasonable and constructive. ... I deeply regretted the course that Sir Oswald Mosley later took. Even his loyal friends...left him when they saw his movement beginning to develop into a form of Fascism, with everything which that implied. This whole story was something of a tragedy. Great talents and great strengths of character were thrown away in vain."

"[David Lloyd George] said that Mosley was one of the worst tragedies he knew. If Mosley had stuck it, he was just the type that was needed at the moment. He was just the sort of fellow who could talk to this crowd. You needed a fellow today like Mosley, who could have cheeked them."

"I like the spirit which informs the document. A scheme of national economic planning to achieve a right, or at least a better, balance of our industries between the old and the new, between agriculture and manufacture, between home development and foreign investment; and wide executive powers to carry out the details of such a scheme. That is what it amounts to. ... [The] manifesto offers us a starting point for thought and action. ... It will shock—it must do so—the many good citizens of this country...who have laissez-faire in their craniums, their consciences, and their bones ... But how anyone professing and calling himself a socialist can keep away from the manifesto is a more obscure matter."

"It was a very able document and illuminating."

"He is too 'logical' and if he had his way would attempt to presently 'Russianize'...our government."

"Did he not appear to you to be a public man of no little courage, no little candour and no little ability."

"No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Oswald Mosley, none promised more surely to soar to the heavens – and none fell to earth with so deadening a thud. Never were such rich talents so wretchedly squandered. Never did success turn to failure so inscrutably."

"Capable of becoming either Conservative or Labour Prime Minister."

"Mosley is the only man I have ever known who could have been the leader of either the Conservative or Labour party...he might have been a very great Prime Minister."

"Tom Mosley is a cad and a wrong 'un and they will find it out."

"A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk."

"Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job."

"...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes."

"I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics."

"Living financially and economically on American charity, selling up the house to the Yanks when he won't pay any more charity out. Are you content to be occupied and protected by American aeroplanes? Are you content to be in the position of an old woman, jipped by her young relations? You who were the greatest power on earth fifty years ago, and still can be! Why do I say, 'you still can be'? Because, my friends, I know you, I know the British people! I know that twice in my lifetime in the world war I fought in, in the world war the younger men fought in. We the British have put our effort, our energy of valor, of heroism, unequalled in the history of mankind."

"A fight between several parties of the British people: Nothing of the kind! A fight between two or three big money combines, that and nothing else. Without the weight of money behind the party machines, in an electoral battle today determined purely by principle and by the number of active workers...British Union could fight and beat today the old parties over the whole electoral field. But you know and I know, the battle is nothing of the kind. The battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. Or when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money."

"Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind."

"Feudalism worked in its crude and inequitable fashion until the coming of the Industrial Age. Today the Feudal tradition and its adherents are broken as a political power and in most cases are ignobly lending their prestige and their abilities to the support of the predatory plutocracy which has gained complete control of the Conservative Party. In modern times the old regime is confronted with two alternatives. The first is to serve the new world in a great attempt to bring order out of chaos and beauty out of squalor. The other alternative is to become flunkeys of the bourgeoisie. It is a matter of constant surprise and regret that many of my class have chosen the latter course."

"We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers."

"Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing."

"You can have the greatest strategy in the world, but what is the point if no one cares?"

"Business is the "art" of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost."

"Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement."

"You cannot have strong leadership without passion."

"All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future."

"Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives."

"When you have been close to death it makes you think about life."

"To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities."

"Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise."

"Never has the future become so rapidly the past."

"Your company may have a reputation for brilliant leadership, outstanding innovation, clever branding and effective change management, but the business could fail if the world changes and you are unprepared."

"The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind."

"Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations."

"Listen to your customers but don't (always) believe what they say - they know even less about the future than you."

"In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell."

"Two thirds of all those who have ever lived to sixty five are alive today and most of them are women."

"The first one hundred and fifty year old human being could be alive as a baby today."

"The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical"

"The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realise because the number of potential wild cards is so great."

"The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability."

"Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world."

"The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves."

"People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too."

"Life's too short to sell things you don't believe in."

"The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth."

"Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so."

"Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future."

"Yet having been inculcated with the unchallengeable belief that they are victims of white society, too many black people believe that any disadvantage they may suffer is not the result of bad luck, circumstances beyond anyone's control or their own behaviour but must be the product of white racism."

"Israel has been at war many times. It has experienced many terrorist atrocities and many thousands of rocket attacks. This was something different. Barbarism and depravity against Jews on this scale hasn't been experienced since the Holocaust. In a country that arose from the ashes of that genocide, the spectacle of Jews being dragged from their homes to be slaughtered, raped or captured, with desperate parents throwing themselves on their children to protect them, was unspeakable. This wasn't simply terrorism. This was a pogrom."