All Quotes

"[first line; very common] Easy for you to say!"

"Why did I overlook Stethoscope? She has the means to stop Beach Ball from stopping!"

"His proselytising zeal and the part he took in promoting the declaration of indulgence rendered Howard particularly odious to the protestant party."

"Some of his suggestions with regard to operations were important advances in abdominal and pelvic surgery. He was, lastly, noted as a great teacher of surgery and a consummate operator."

"He was a man of very clear judgment, of ripe experience, of solid wisdom, and deservedly occupies a place as one of the greatest of French surgeons of the nineteenth century."

"He remained a staunch supporter of the old order during the Reformation era, and being an independent thinker, with feelings and views very similar to those of the 'old catholic' school of this century, tried to stem the reformation of the church from within."

"Think about the areas that interest you, move around and try them out. It’s so fast-paced that I’d say just throw yourself into it."

"When I wanted to step up into my first director role. I started to look around when I was at Matalan, after Northern Foods, and that was the first time I felt I was coming up against a ceiling. It’s hard to get that first break because there’s a pool of people around that have already done it. When you’ve not held that role, but you’ve got all the experience and skills, it’s hard to be able to convince people that you’re capable of it if you don’t have the title."

"When you’ve not held that role, but you’ve got all the experience and skills, it’s hard to be able to convince people that you’re capable of it if you don’t have the title."

"“They were looking for leadership. In a sense there was a vacuum there. A lot of people knew me as I had worked there before and I was known by local partners – everyone was very welcoming. But the staff were yearning for someone to come in.”"

"At a time when we have been put into special measures, had huge challenges and have made significant organisational change, we were able to attract a high calibre team which is really important in terms of sustainability and long-term improvement"

"The way staff engaged with it and agreed to the changes we made was a real testament to them. We have not really had any challenges"

"The real leadership challenge is how to deliver sustainable improvement year in and year out – someone said to me it’s more a marathon than a sprint.”"

"Nothing in life is easy. Women need to be serious in whatever they do. They should be well organised."

"We have many big projects that would have helped our industrial revolution, but instability in the political leadership has been a major setback."

"There’s a huge question for entrepreneurs when they’re raising funds as to whether they take ‘strategic money’ – that is money from a corporate that has an interest in your business, either because of what your business does or doesn’t do, or whether it takes them into a new area. But I had that decision very much baked into the growth journey.”"

"It isn’t signed until the day it’s signed. There’s technical stuff that can really trip you up and the devil is in the detail. I’ve made mistakes when I’ve been in a rush – and I make a lot fewer now. You need someone at your elbow saying ‘don’t sign that, it’s not right"

"This wasn’t my first rodeo; I’d had other exits.” Previously, she’d co-founded and sold PR group Mantra for several million in 2007, and went on to co-found and exit Maidthorn Partners before starting Love Home Swap in 2011."

"There might be all sorts of obstacles, there might be legal documents you’re not aware of. That’s why having good advisors around who’ve been through this a number of times is invaluable.”"

"I started fundraising for Kidney Research UK after my transplant. It was my way of giving back because I found it really difficult emotionally and psychologically to say thank you to the donor family who had lost their loved one. I raised money at first by doing one of the charity’s Bridges Walks and then on my kidney transplant anniversary, I would do an event with family and friends at my house and raise money through that.”"

"They said it meant a lot to them as it reminded them of their purpose and end goal. It was nice to hear that and to see their passion in terms of how they’re trying to find a better way of dialysing or finding medication that has less impact on the body.”"

"When it’s your own story, you live it, you breathe it and it becomes normal to you. When I speak to people I’m very open and frank about what’s happened to me, but when I see the impact it has on others, it makes me feel emotional myself. I realise how much I can help by telling my story.”"

"I showed them a photograph of me when I was at my most ill and they couldn't believe I’m the person in the picture. I went on that journey of nearly dying and then going on to have a child. I had my daughter, Aliyah in 2016 even though I was told I couldn’t have children. I’ve beaten the odds, basically.”"

"I understand how important it is for people to see themselves and their communities represented at senior levels of an organisation. Since coming onto the board, I have been able to advise Greater Sport on what they can do to be more inclusive, and act as a spokesperson to previously excluded communities to ensure that Greater Sport is as accessible to all."

"My advice to other leaders in the private sector would absolutely be to volunteer and put themselves forward for these opportunities in sport."

"The role with Greater Sport particularly appealed as it operated within my local community and I felt I could really help the organisation reach some of the communities in the area that had traditionally been harder to reach. The opportunity to drive this change in my local area was one I jumped at."

"I had never looked at a business newspaper like the Financial Times."

"Sometimes such a lateral entry is also an advantage."

"The individual parts are always the same, but someone may have shaken them together overnight."

"When I was sent on a management skills training course for one of my previous employers, I realized that people are motivated by very different things."

"It's self-reliance and independence that count."

"We each have to find out for ourselves what we like and good, and then simply more of it do."

"Maybe that's because we have a lot of employees on site in China."

"That is why we already dealt with COVID in January 2020."

"At first we saw it as a regional problem, but when it turned into a global pandemic, we had some training."

"We rolled out Zoom across the company in just two weeks."

"And when we sent almost all of our employees to work from home, I was impressed by how flexible our employees were."

"We haven't actually had any failures we only owe that to the commitment of our people."

"If we really crack this, if we get this right, if we truly have a diverse culture and inclusive culture, that eventually will lead you to a sense of belonging and belonging is about not feeling like you're in an alien environment."

"I look back on my own journey, that feeling of being an outsider was definitely there for a big part of the beginning part of that journey."

"I didn't have a family background in financial services or indeed in business."

"It was just totally alien to the environment I grew up in."

"When I look now at my peers and my cohort, I could reel off in financial services, half a dozen female CEOs right now today, without thinking too hard about it, 20 years ago, that was not the case."

"Analysis Each step and then try and take a really lateral view."

"What is it that you are missing? Start with the premise that it's not working."

"If it’s not working, what would that look like? Does that then look like what you already have?"

"One of the challenges is how you can get something that is meaningful and relevant to every single piece of that quite complex puzzle, which is why things like targets are quite difficult to set in isolation."

"They will look very different for a different company that has a different geographic footprint. Even within the UK, that's true."

"You have to do a kind of audit of all your congregation’s needs."

"It’s always important to me that any theology we do."