All Quotes

""“We’re on a mission to treat outsiders as insiders.”"

"The ruthless answer is do I want to keep reading because my reading pile is huge... Is there a story or character I’m compelled by?"

"Doing this job is like studying for an exam that you are never prepped for. The workload never ever goes away. I’ve got literally hundreds of scripts, any time of a given month or week."

"Engage with other women, both younger and older, and stand firm against any negativity. I wish someone had shared this wisdom with me."

"Equality and diversity require collective attention and commitment. Those with industry experience should focus on creating opportunities for diverse talent."

"If I can deliver a strong script, compelling characters, and ensure they are well taken care of during their time with us, everything will fall into place."

"“Tell the truth, even if that truth is sometimes unpalatable.”"

"How do you get your boss to like you? It’s now developed into something more, because it’s earned the right to do that. So I’m really looking forward to the audience getting to see storylines that are opening up more."

"I think really what we look for are good stories, well told, with something to say. We tend to really lean into strong female characters, and we look for something that has a moral center, even if sometimes that moral center looks like a cold, dark heart."

"I think it’s gut instinct, really. Sometimes, in something like Industry, that was inspired by wanting to look in that world."

"Our AI recruitment platform is something we want to eventually license out two competitors, as a software as a service model which is a number one growing sector in the cloud at the moment."

"There are lots of things in life that happen that we need to address, and we shouldn’t shy away and just think, ‘Okay, well, that’s a bit tough’ or ‘That’s a bit that is very out there,’ but actually it’s all based on stuff that actually happens."

"Many retail business are just watching with horror almost at the mess that has been created."

"I think many retail business are just watching with horror almost at the mess that has been created and how it’s so late, and from a business point of view you would never, never leave everything to the last minute."

"That ability to deliver pretty low inflation or even deflation in non-food over the last five years or so has been dependent on frictionless movement of goods across borders, and to the extent that goods are imported from the EU, or from countries that the EU has a trade deal with, as there are no tariffs on those goods coming in."

"If we’re on WTO tariffs, and if we have any friction at the borders, that will put costs up for retailers and hence prices up for consumers."

"I was gobsmacked by it at the time because back then you were routinely talking hundreds of thousands of pounds for some of these larger “gold standard” government projects."

"I’d never really been all that aware of the scale of it all when seeing statistics quoted in the newspaper until I started working in the industry."

"Being innovative is crucial in our line of work, and yes it brings a lot of value to try something."

"I believe you don't have to do something new for the sake of doing something new, just consider things that have worked well so far."

"I honestly don't think a day goes by, certainly a week, where I don’t learn something from each other."

"We're always learning from each other, which I think that is really valuable."

"They were opening shops like ­billy-o as loads of people were buying things on credit. At that time you did not have to be a great retailer to enjoy a measure of success. But now it is the customer in charge and digitalisation is largely driving it."

"The digital revolution has had a major impact on the way consumers shop. It’s a game-changer."

"Technology is giving rise to a pace of change that we have not ever seen before. For the customer it’s great."

"Customers don’t care what shopping channel they use."

"It is a great opportunity for retailers as it provides small retail businesses with a shop window to the world, driving exports of British products rather than just being a physical place in the community."

"“my words can’t express gratitude but the smile of a child is the greatest motivation and is enormously rewarding”"

"Being great is being passionate about what you do and seeing the benefit of that through the eyes of other people."

"Your success is not your own, it is determined by many other influences"

"You need to step back, don’t judge and take a breath"

"You have to reflect very closely on decisions you make as they affect not only you but also others around you."

""Honesty and integrity are critical to human behaviour"."

"You need to believe in yourself and others around you that are able and willing to assist you."

""Giving is very important: giving of yourself and giving of your time"."

"No matter how big or small, all contributions are meaningful"

"The Smithsonian, for all of us who live in Washington, is a very important part of our total experience. I can remember coming to the Smithsonian as a child with my parents, coming with my two sons after church and much later with my two little granddaughters. I feel very warmly about the Smithsonian"

"I love this opportunity every day I have to come to work to provide amazing public service to all the taxpayers of this almost one-million-person county"

"I would advise the business to negotiate the terms and to have a cool-off period. Seek a trail to learn the key functionalities of the CRM. The implementation itself that can take four to six weeks so it kind of puts business off especially smaller businesses. You feel it is taking so long to get on track and to get your staff numbers working. As a result, often you tend to just settle for less to get the core working."

"The big one for us is security and compliance and ease of reporting. From the compliance perspective we can do audits. For data protection and GDPR this varies between daily reporting to every three weeks in some instances. This reporting is critical to ensure that the work process is in check, and remains compliant. Companies have to get familiar with this (compliance) language. Most CRMs do not focus on compliance, they have some features for it,but it can be done much better. Businesses focusing on compliance from the start, are much more likely to succeed."

"We all as an industry went into the crisis and came back out and I personally don’t think enough has changed"

"We can do interesting things and why shouldn’t we do it in banking?"

"Starting a bank is not for the faint-hearted. But it’s ever so worthwhile"

"We’re focused on doing one thing and then living in a marketplace of other products"

"“I’ve got this fantastic idea about having a bank that’s built on all new technology, that’s on the side of the customer, that actually offers services very competitively.”"

"I think the most important thing is your health and your family’s health, and then your financial health"

"‘'People at the end of their career write memoirs. I’m at the beginning.’'"

"you’ll have ups and downs in any particular venture, and you have to recover, you have to be resilient. And every single entrepreneur gets a near death experience, and you have to come back from it. It’s all about recovery and resilience and using that for the next phase"

"you can’t do it on your own, you have to do it with lots of different types of people and different sources of knowledge"

"you’ve got to change. People talk about the project and the product iterating and pivoting, but you have to add your own personality and your own learnings have to do that as well. Because as an entrepreneur, as a leader, you are part of the product, you have to think, you have to absorb things and you have to evolve"