"I honestly didn’t know that much about Salesforce. I hadn’t actively applied for the job and I wouldn’t have taken it had I not felt fully aligned with Marc’s vision and values"

"My 17-year-old daughter would tell you that I can’t even sort out my social media accounts and here I am trying to run a tech company,"

"I found it very difficult actually"

"Virgin Money was my baby. I devoted 25 years of my life to it. I’d set it up from scratch, stayed with it and made lots of personal sacrifices. When it came time to sell the business, that was definitely the right thing to do."

"But as the CEO, you are right in the thick of getting the deal closed to the very, very end. Then you sort of fall out of the business and think gosh, now I need to think about myself."

"A very people-intensive profession. You spend a lot of time rolling up your sleeves to help other people solve a problem. I find that very satisfying, both intellectually and emotionally." It's also rewarding"

"Don't get discouraged, and don't let other people define your potential. In high school, when I told my guidance counselor that I wanted to apply to Harvard, she said that was an unrealistic expectation. My parents and others encouraged me to apply anyway, and I became the first person from my high school to ever attend Harvard. So hold onto your dreams, even when others try to diminish them. And think big"

"when you can take things you learn in a business environment and apply them in a pro-bono context"

"My mother always emphasized that we should be able to hold a conversation on any topic for at least five minutes. This reinforced the value of knowledge and intellectual curiosity in us"

"I do not use brute force in my management style. I use my strategic abilities. I work hard to create a team environment. It’s extremely important for a leader to empower others in driving the success of the organization. I emphasize how essential it is to be nimble and always resourceful."

"Our efforts involve reaching out to people,", "making sure that they know who we are, and that we're interested in them"

"I was brought up to challenge myself, to try to be successful on my own terms. I was brought up to be focused. So I see myself as more fully engaged than ever before"

"One of the things you have to trade off is how much time you're going to have for personal thing"

"“Don’t let other people’s diminished expectations for you be the truth about your life,”"

"Being able to cope when things are really bad also gives you some confidence, and having courage is an important part of being a leader. But it did take me a year until I fully found my footing as a CEO.”"

"Write a list at the end of your working day of everything you have got to do tomorrow. That way you can kind of leave it at work and pick it up the next day"

"Pay television needs to be about more than just films and football. The consumer can’t be expected to fund all of Sky’s investments and get less and less choice in return"

"“You have so much more agency than you realise. There will always be people saying you can’t do this, you are too old or too young, but you have a lot of power if you choose to own it.”"

"Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy skills,"

"“I’ve always been someone who wanted to look at the bigger picture, working on the business rather than in it. HR initially allowed me to see how all the dots join together in order to make a change in the business.”"

"More than anything it’s just about recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"Get some practical experience that will help you place in context some of the learning you’ve had and apply it in the real world. That gives you a real start in being able to decide what you want to do.""

"As an organisation, we don’t sit still…We look at every opportunity, we have huge ambitions for the UK"

"recognising what’s happening to you and not letting it direct your emotions. Recognise it so you can take back some control,”"

"“Think about the other side of your brain, the side that’s not about business, the side that is more creative … Through my characters, I can explore issues about women, race, ethnicity and all kinds of interesting things in a completely different way. But also, [writing] is fun.”"

"“The secret to success is being nimble, and light on your feet,”"

"“Most of my pivots come through conversations,” she said. “Maybe it is because they are giving voice to something I have already been thinking about.”"

"“Think about hiring people who push you. It’s important that you create an environment among people that says we’re all trying to be better, we can all learn from each other, we can all inspire each other""

"“Wherever you are in your career, you have to become an expert at something pretty quickly. Being a generalist and being a smart person is not going to get you where you need to go,”"

"“Everyone who has achieved something, there have been times when they did not know if they could do it, and there were definitely times when people told them they could not do it,”"

"“It’s very important to have a mentor who can help you understand the unwritten rules of the company. Try to find three or four people who can look out for you in different ways.”"

"“I thought that it was really important, after having done the same thing for ten years, to take a risk and put myself in a situation that was going to be important for the future. Understanding how Internet companies work and what it takes to manage them and what it takes to make them profitable is going to be a critical skill for managers going forward … While it can be frustrating and difficult, it’s a wonderful thing to shake up your career and try something different,”"

"“There’s no question that there are barriers, people who are going to try to make us feel badly about our prospects, people who are going to say it’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a concrete ceiling and you’re never going to overcome it, you’re never going to get there,”"

"“Should you even consider taking risks in an environment where the economy might be slowing down? Throughout my career, I’ve found it very important to have a mindset that says I have to keep taking chances, because that’s how you learn, that’s how you develop and that’s how you grow,”"

"“Even though the economy is more challenging, it’s still going to reward people who are creative and innovative and have vision.”"

"“It is really important to have people around you, family, friends, or someone in your life, who can back you up against the naysayers.”"

"We’ve had to work hard at helping people understand that jobs at McDonald’s are good quality jobs with prospects. Over half of my executive team started off working in restaurants"

"If you want scale, you have to be careful about how niche you get"

"What we tend to do is spot trends and then democratise them. An example would be cappuccinos and lattes – we saw these were growing as a trend and we thought there was an opportunity to [provide] great tasting, ethical, good quality coffee but at exceptional prices, more conveniently than some of our competitors.""

"Co-viewing is really, really important"

"It’s important for businesses to reach out but also for universities to reach into business and really understand what skills and capabilities those businesses are looking for.""

"I’ve lived all over the world, I grew up in Hong Kong, and I married someone in the diplomatic service. With Disney, I lived in Australia, then back to Paris and then the U.S."

"The opportunity to work at Disney has been phenomenal. Living in Australia was the biggest family adventure. I remember talking with my husband, who at the time was deputy national security advisor, and he was the one who said, if we don’t go now, we will never go."

"Anecdotally, how I had to change my business dialogue in negotiations and of what my expectations were, whether I was working in Europe, or when I went to Australia, how different that was than Paris."

"Another way we’re helping our Hosts address rising costs is through our energy- efficiency programs. We launched our first programmes in the UK and France last year and we’re expanding to other countries this year."

"Each time, I had to be willing to listen, acknowledge when I needed to learn and ask for help. Women, in particular, often feel we need to have an answer for everything to be taken seriously."

"In the current cost of living crisis, we also want to raise awareness about hosting as a path to meaningful income."

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