"Try to work on something that has a purpose."

"We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson"

"I knew very little about public companies at that point."

"I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Wh…"

"I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do."

"That's what you do after dinner."

"I just felt like it was time."

"Time for me, time for the company."

"You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they requir…"

"Pearson will still behave as it has in the past, which is to review all the time what the best assets are."