businesspeople-from-scotland

"Team work makes the dream work, so choose the right collaborators."

"Be prepared to leave it in the room, because you can overthink it. I’d say to young actors to look at the work of great actors. If there’s someone you like, take a look at their entire career and how they’ve grown."

"The racing department was just hemorrhaging money,"

"He was very receptive to what I had to say, and I was very receptive to what he had to say. We tried to cast people who [didn’t look] too contemporary, because it is a period piece. So I helped guide him through marrying a look with an acting skill."

"“I am interested in exploring narratives that reflect the diversity of experiences of the African diaspora. I believe that we have a lens that is unique because of our cultural duality and we do not see enough of those across the breadth of output in the European cinema space.”"

"My passion was around using financial statements as the scoreboard of your business to increase profitability and improve cash flow and decrease taxation"

"I had been to a NASCAR race once and I was like, ‘yeah, this is not for me"

"how is it possible that the number one most prestigious team in Porsche racing is owned by a woman, and that is something that isn't even on my trajectory’"

"Aunjanue is great. We were very lucky to get her. We wanted to have her in the film because she’s just so fresh."

"He’s just a great, very funny guy, and he has a singular way of approaching film. The biggest thing for me was having to guide him through the casting process for a narrative film, because he was used to doing his own thing with documentaries."

"I found my feet and wings, and King’s supported my accommodation for three years. ‎*Starting as a student to becoming a part of staff faculty."

"Now that we’ve had real success in helping individuals move into stable housing, we’re turning our focus to prevention."

"I was homeless and penniless when I first started at King’s."

"I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine."

"Once that’s complete, the city can move forward with plans for a sale."

"I have personally worked with this group to help educate the public on the benefits of waiting and I believe they will be able to collaborate with our schools to spread the message."

"We’ve submitted our Housing Element and Fair Share Plan as required by state law. It’s posted on the city’s website so that residents can review and understand what’s being proposed."

"More than 20 individuals who were once living on the streets are now in real homes, and that shift has improved life for the entire community."

"The numbers are encouraging. We’ve gone from 30 motor vehicle thefts in 2023 to six so far this year."

"Right now, we’re waiting for an appraisal of the property."

"What made this possible was a state grant program that only opens up about once every 15 years."

"I also witnessed great advances in liver diseases, my chosen speciality."

"There’s been a lot to be proud of this year, but one of the most powerful accomplishments is the progress we've made through the Homelessness Task Force."

"It will take a partnership between parents and schools to help mitigate the effects of cell phone use among teens."

"I think the partnership bonus was the most critical [lesson]. [I learned early on that] you work better in a partnership than you do in a traditional supplier relationship, because you understand what your client is trying to do better, and you'll go the extra mile to help them do that."

"They touch almost everything at the bank” she says on production deployments, citing “anomaly detection on our asset servicing platforms, trade settlements; on our Client Services team, we have a multi-agentic solution; these are delivering real value in dollar terms and productivity terms. I would say that scale [of deployment] is pretty unique…”"

"environment you're trying to play into, you can standardize your own products, make your own business better… get into that real win-win for both organizations” she adds. “Nobody's successful without great partnerships. That is a real focus for me in engineering.”"

"I think it is time for calm heads and clear thinking. I think it is also time for some new influencers in the game, new ideas and more openness. I think it is great that we have Ron and Dave Cormack, who are two really creative thinkers who ask the question: “What does the modern game look like? What will it look like? Where do we fit in that?"

"I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life"

"Legacy”? Just a bit, then! Whilst much of it is proud “legacy”, the bank, like every well-established financial services firm, had no shortage of ageing infrastructure and applications to clean up. Mercifully, a major overhaul had already born fruit when Russell joined in 2024, she cheerfully admits."

"These will be really testing times but really interesting times because I think it is going to change everything. Actually, probably, in some small way, everything in football had to change anyway."

"I’m certain there was some whispers, some comments, but never really directed at me and I would say if someone were to do that then they would be getting short shrift."

"So many ditched the commute and extolled the virtue of flexibility and being able to balance home and work life more seamlessly."

"In the early head-spinning weeks of Covid lockdown, we were quick to champion the benefits of home working."

"I benefited enormously from watching some really excellent leaders and how they navigated challenging problems."

"Being seen and then seeing other leaders is a really important part of development."

"Businesses do have a role to play in that."

"We just need to be careful that we don't inadvertently prevent women from taking some of the opportunities by not being in the office when they feel it's beneficial both to their skills and to contribute to the business."

"It was only in the months that followed, that people realised the downside of home working wasn’t benefitting everyone equally."

"We find, certainly at Nationwide... that men are more likely to come into the office than women"."

"We should be in a strong position to inspire the next generation of female leaders. However, our post-pandemic ways of working may deny many women the opportunities that were so important to me in my early career."

"I thought, ‘you’re having a laugh… I’m not leaving now. There’s not a chance I’m going to walk away when things are tough, if anything it makes me more determined."

"Like many people who eventually realise at a point in their life that they are gay, you go through challenges, and I did struggle a little bit, if I’m honest."

"I’ve been criticised for spending money we didn’t have."

"I know the passion, I know how much football means but so much of what you see and hear is illogical. The team is having a bad run; it happens to more or less everybody. I just think it’s unpleasant and feel for those in the firing line because if only life was that simple. You can deal with it for so long then it begins to wear you down."

"No, I didn’t do that; I spent money I knew we had. Maybe we shouldn’t go into the discussion about whether I’ve always spent it wisely."

"we want to make the club as successful as possible in Europe. That’s a game changer for Hearts and if we consolidate our position in the top three or four clubs in Scotland, that has to be our target."

"To be honest, being CEO and having that level of involvement in everything going on in the club – being in the thick of things – was what I loved, but the moment was right to step back from that."

"If something is wrong, it is wrong and we should all be doing our utmost to correct that wrong."

"I've sat on the SPFL board and I've approved a loan for another club. I know that loans can be approved."