All Quotes

"The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of ­Commons."

"I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York."

"There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma."

"It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly."

"Nobody used that word, and I did not then have children but I had noticed there was only one female director in the entire department."

"I took a pay cut and went into newspapers."

"Much depends on what you call a top job."

"Someone like Chrissie Rucker of The White Company, who creates a successful chain of shops, doesn't have the power to shape law that a senior judge has but she may create jobs for hundreds and significant wealth, as we report on the opposite page."

"Well I think there are three dynamics that have really been at work at Pearson's this year and a few years before this that have changed our fortunes."

"The ubiquity of digital across Pearson, not only in how we make things, but how we sell them and how we deliver them to our customers."

"Another is the business mix."

"We are just far more focused on businesses that have a lot to do with each other, and that are consistent."

"We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely."

"Emerging markets, our exposure to emerging markets, emerging markets are now about 10% of all of Pearson's revenue and growing at more than 20% a year."

"Those are markets where we have not only great demographic characteristics but we can use our scale."

"We can take things that we've made in one country and move them to another country."

"All three of those pieces together have given us fundamentally different financial characteristics"

"I’m delighted to be handing over the role of Chair at ACL to an excellent successor in Lesley Cowley. Her strong track record working in bodies with important public roles gives Lesley the right background to take over chairing the Board of ACL as the company prepares for continued regulatory change and commercial growth.”"

"I’m excited to be joining ACL’s Board to help guide the company as it manages the pressures of coordination at a growing number of constrained airports while staying at the forefront of technical progress and customer service.”"

"As we look forward to welcoming Lesley Cowley to ACL’s Board, I’d like to record my sincere thanks to Jeff Halliwell for the role he’s played as Chair since 2013, guiding the Board through a period of major development for ACL and its governance.”"

"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."

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

"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."

"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’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"

"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."

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

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

"The partnership model was never in question"

"I always ask, what’s the upside?"

"It is a practical statement and something we try to live by because it can only mean something if it is adopted by the front line. It has a bearing on everything, from how our corporate strategy is driven to how we decide agenda items for meetings, because we are focused on making the customer the centre of everything."

"It is one way of taking people right to the heart of what the business is about,""

"If people find Bupa to be an uncompassionate machine, then our strategy has failed and we have wasted our marketing money.""

"“I have had an amazing career over the past 40 years and worked with extraordinary people who share my passion for the food and drink industry,”"

""Now it is time for me to do something else while maintaining my interest in skills and young people. For me, the future is about continuing to be involved in the things I love while finding more time to enjoy my wonderful family and, in particular, my beautiful grandsons.”"

"For us, finding a solution is very, very important,"

"What is very important for us is regulatory standards. Absolutely key is that we have a convergence of that, that we avoid red tape,"

"“Industry must step up and help young people bridge the gap between education and employment,”"

"“We cannot leave this problem to the Government and schools. We need to work together to help young people – and to develop the next generation of skilled employees for the future.”"

"“As a country we walked away from apprenticeships and manufacturing generally. Now it’s very much back on the agenda, but we’ve got a lot of catching up to do to make sure we’re got the right skills.""

"“We have to bring young people in and really equip them, and move them through really fast. But we also have to up-skill – they are going to be the engineers for tomorrow.”"

"“Even out of the recession, we don’t believe that is going to come down massively,”"

"“It was hugely tough but we decided that my career would take the lead, so we put his business on ice and we went,” she says. “I have a great husband, that’s one of the magic ingredients.”"

"“Digital Asset has evolved from an ambitious idea to a truly global software engineering firm. We are fortunate to have a deep bench of accomplished executives on the management team and board, including AG [Gangadhar], who have the requisite experience to take the company to the next level. Having come to know and trust AG as an advisor and board member, I am convinced that he brings what’s needed to guide the company through its next phase.”"

"“What in the long run this all meant was that credit, which is a vital part of the lifeblood of any economy, the global economy, became a more readily available asset""

"“And the thinking was that that would be an unambiguously positive thing.”"

"“Unfortunately, tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their own risk exposures properly,”"

"I've been working 19-hour days ever since"

"I've been briefing Gordon Brown non-stop, he is very involved."