Carol Kane (businesswoman)

"It needs strategic and far-sighted leadership. That has not existed, and it is clearly urgently required. We don't even know who is running it."

"I believe in always being disciplined; I think a little bit of self-discipline. I try and get in probably between four and seven sessions of some kind of exercise a week, I watch what I eat, limit my alcohol intake, and I try and get as much sleep as I can."

"I think you have to balance it off, I think I can be successful in my day job, and I’ll be better in my day job if I do these other things. I feel better for going to the gym in the morning and having an odd day when I do a detox, and I just feel overall better for it."

"Becoming a public business, it was a whole new learning for me. I was surrounded by the banking industry and I found it really difficult.So, to go into another world, I found that really challenging, but what I did, was thought ‘well they don’t really know my subject’! Once I understood that I knew my subject better than anyone else, the confidence came back, because who’s really going to question the fashion authority?"