"Creating a lifelong love of learning was Mason’s goal. If children developed an early hunger for ideas, she reasoned, it would sustain them through life. Mason’s philosophy was that in addition to the proper nutrients needed to thrive, children require ideas to chew on, to properly grow. And the source of these ideas, she reasoned, was not typical textbooks. Rather than suggesting that these ideas originate in the mind of the teacher, administrator, or even the parent, Mason believed that the best resource for these ideas were books of “literary quality” or great books."

"‘'People at the end of their career write memoirs. I’m at the beginning.’'"

"Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’,2 November 2020"

"Back then, sites were solely focused on price and didn’t mention the features of the policy. This meant that customers might’ve been getting cheap quotes, but weren’t offered much information on the policy and could’ve found that they were missing out on features that they wanted. I decided that I could either stay where I was, or I could start something new and make a difference. The result was Gocompare.com."

"Young people are growing up with technology as a second nature and the education system has gone from an archaic chalk and blackboard lecture, to an interactive experience that I feel is helping young people develop key skills."

"The needs of our customers have underpinned everything that we have done, and are still the most important influence on our company. This belief has not only helped us get where we are today, but has also made us the only price comparison website invited to be a member of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) thanks to our focus on transparency and customer care."

"To succeed in business you need to be brave enough to ask the right questions and talk to the right people, it’s the only way you can learn to be better at what you do."

"I think that some women become transfixed with the ‘glass ceiling’. I’ve always thought that if you believe there is a glass ceiling, you’ll spend your life on the floor looking up at it. Anybody can be successful in any industry as long as they work hard and are nosey and noisy enough"

"If you’re thinking of starting your own online business the most important thing you can do is research the market. The internet is a fantastic tool for identifying a target market and checking out the competition."

"I think if you offer good value and you offer a proposition which is innovative, people will migrate to it"

"We all as an industry went into the crisis and came back out and I personally don’t think enough has changed"

"We can do interesting things and why shouldn’t we do it in banking?"

"Starting a bank is not for the faint-hearted. But it’s ever so worthwhile"

"We’re focused on doing one thing and then living in a marketplace of other products"

"“I’ve got this fantastic idea about having a bank that’s built on all new technology, that’s on the side of the customer, that actually offers services very competitively.”"

"I think the most important thing is your health and your family’s health, and then your financial health"

"you’ll have ups and downs in any particular venture, and you have to recover, you have to be resilient. And every single entrepreneur gets a near death experience, and you have to come back from it. It’s all about recovery and resilience and using that for the next phase"

"you can’t do it on your own, you have to do it with lots of different types of people and different sources of knowledge"

"you’ve got to change. People talk about the project and the product iterating and pivoting, but you have to add your own personality and your own learnings have to do that as well. Because as an entrepreneur, as a leader, you are part of the product, you have to think, you have to absorb things and you have to evolve"

"With me and my queer nature, that set me so at odds with the world and all its ordinary rules, I could not find a place in it to live and be content."

"They will turn my passion into something gross and wrong... It is only love, Helenonly that."

"The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length."

"The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years. So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears."

"'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people; the other qualities make one proud of loving them too."

"Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse."

"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass."