businesspeople-from-london

"The Queen has never sat there and said anything that makes her miserable, has she? She’s always got on with it."

"Felix is a 'downright civilian', dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes - a man idling in such times.","

"No, well, I don’t know, I have so many cousins in all directions, I don’t know what a cousin feels like."

"You either like people or you don’t."

"I can’t say a thing in Russian; I find English hard enough. I know four words in Russian: Da, Net, Spasibo, Dushka (Yes, No, Thank you, Sweetheart)."

"I would have been a ‘lousy imperial princess’, because I would rather shovel sh-- than have to be very charming and dressed up on a daily basis."

"So if you’re looking to create a better work environment — and to attract the best people — be sure that your organization is one where “lifelong learning is celebrated and encouraged"

"What is wrong with demanding that learning is a priority within your career"

"There’s actually a demographic that has embraced learning from the start: millennials. Many millennial workers value professional development and learning opportunities, and they may grow frustrated with an employer if they don’t feel they are receiving adequate development opportunities"

"Giving yourself permission to learn is incredibly important,”"

"I’m a very pragmatic person,"

"Look at the high street names that aren’t here, but were here in 2019. The fact that we’ve come through it, the business has got momentum and the team is in place for a smooth transition. I’ve felt incredibly lucky."

"I always ask, what’s the upside?"

"The partnership model was never in question"

"I’m looking forward to what Waitrose is going to be doing over the next two to three years"

"The question is about how you fund your growth. The most straightforward is you generate your own cash through trading."

"The partnership almost sits apart from the rest of the business world,” she adds. “We’re almost more in the mode of the BBC or NHS as a national institution, because people feel that they’ve got a stake."

"We’re back on track and much more fit for the future. This is a launch pad for the next phase of growth for the business and to be frank we’re in as solid a position as we could be given the five years we’ve had"

"I would say it’s a watershed moment. Some of the difficult decisions we took over the last year mean that we’re now generating more cash as a business"

"We’ve had the pandemic and we’ve had inflation at a level we haven’t seen since the 1970s. We’ve come through that as a partnership with all the upsides of the partnership – transparency, service, long-term focus – intact."

"We’ve come through once in a generation events over the last five years"

"I got quite a reputation for my Lotus skills"

"We still have a ways to go, but at least it's providing the ability for us to understand how we should be using Gen AI to be more agile and hopefully productive in our ability to serve our clients; to understand how we need to change our ways of working and the talent set required to do so"

"One is [being] the technology officer who is responsible for all of the technology that powers McKinsey, all of the technology that we use to enable our clients; and then all of the platforms that enable both of those things.”"

"“I think the bigger challenge, which we've all had on the cloud journey, is how you train your teams to work very closely with your partners and understand the capabilities, the economics, the telemetry and make sure that we are using it and scaling as best we can.”"

"But I think the ability to be able to scale every aspect of what we do; create key partnerships with the hyperscalers in terms of what we want to develop, invest in, procure and go to market with; it sets us up very nicely.”"

"Once the highest value chunks are identified we synthesize the final answer and include citations back the underlying source documents”"

"I’m Client 1 of our own transformation...""

"But I think backgammon is even more beneficial because it revolves around managing probability, risk and reward"

"I get up at 7:30 am. I do 'morning pages' - three written pages of journaling (a concept from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron). Then ten minutes of meditation and a half-hour walk into the office."

"I'm too busy to check email or social media before work, which is great as I find that checking for updates does not set me up well for the day at all"

"I discovered Todoist through a 'lunch and learn' we did at Softwire where people explained their methods of tracking tasks. It's a fabulous app because it just works."

"I have a fledgling career as an actor and trying to fit both in means I work pretty much all the time, including evenings and weekends. I try not to send emails into the night"

"Once you get into management, it’s challenges all the way up!"

"I would love to live in a world where everyone, including the women themselves, expects exactly the same drive and ability from both female and male employees."

"If you can’t see someone who looks like you doing the job, then you don’t think it’s for you."

"My biggest learning around mentorship is that all of the drive and determination needs to come from the mentee. If you go to a mentor or coach expecting them to wave a magic wand and fix your life for you, it’s not going to happen."

"It looks very glamorous from the outside, but you’re just in some big room in a hotel with lots of boards so it really just feels like a school hall"

"The women’s tournament was much smaller than the main competition and I got lucky to get through the draw"

"You see it in all sports and particularly in those like snooker for example, when you’re about to win and all those thoughts start going through your head you actually play worse"

"It’s just like anything, until you have someone to show you how to play it you won’t pick it up"

"The finest example of a tropical conservatory we ever saw is the one at , the property of , at the time we saw it the plants were in excellent condition, reflecting great credit on Mr. Speed, the head gardener; the fine s and s give it a splendid tropical effect, and the beauties of all are considerably enhanced by a gallery, which thus enables the visitor to inspect the plants above and below, and no large plant house should be erected without a structure of this kind."

"are among the most beautiful of Orchids, many of them uniting every good quality that a plant can possess,—rich, evergreen, and regularly-curved foliage,—a graceful habit,—flowers of peculiar elegance. ... These plants are of easy culture, and if properly attended to are seldom out of order. They are found in the hottest parts of India and other warm countries, growing on the branches of trees, generally on such as overhang streams of water; and to grow them in anything like perfection, the climate in which they grow wild must be imitated as nearly as possible."

"Onc. Barkerii.—A remarkably handsome dwarf Orchid from Mexico; the flowers are very large; the sepals and petals rich brown barred with yellow; the lip a bright yellow, about an inch and a half across. It produces its branching spikes of flower during the dull months of winter, which greatly enhances it value, and it lasts six weeks in bloom."

"To the Merchants and Men of Commerce throughout the entire world, or to those among them who love their calling and count themselves fortunate in being able to follow its intricate but fascinating paths—to those who look upon work as glorious and to be sought—who look upon idleness as unproductive and to be avoided—to those whose efforts are unitedly making the world busier, happier, richer, and more able to provide the good things of life, this volume is dedicated by The Author."

"Right or wrong, ."

"People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice."

"The boss drives his men; the leader coaches them. The boss depends upon authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'We'. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go.'"

"The floors are of marble or mosaic or are covered with hundreds of thousands of yards of carpets. The lifts are almost without number..."

"Bigness alone is nothing, but bigness filled with the activity that does everything continually better means much."