All Quotes

"“Encouraging someone to take part is really like giving them a gift for life. There are not many things where you can say, ‘I’m going to do that, I am going to do some good and I’m going to get a medal for it’.”"

"“I feel fit, I feel well, I feel fit, I feel well”"

"If what you start now becomes a daily habit, you’ll still do it when you’re 70 or 80. The more you look after yourself and the fitter you are, the more choices you have when you’re older. Walking gives you confidence because you can feel your body get stronger."

"If you’re in a fog of depression, set yourself doable goals and build up from there. Head out at a time of day when your energy is highest."

"Reward yourself. If you’ve completed a good walk, pat yourself on the back for getting out there."

"“For some founders, it's very hard to evolve the charity, because as it gets bigger, they very much don't know how to do that. And so, I've always been really conscious that it's really important to evolve, to keep changing, to keep being relevant.""

"“Everything around us has changed, but the values hold strong. And I think that's really important. Whilst I'm not Bilbo Baggins, and I won't be here till I'm 111, I hope that those values will be the thing that holds the charity going forward, and that no matter what decisions are made, there will always be a check in back to: ‘Well is that the right thing for the charity?’'"

"I've always been conscious that the better you take care of the inside, the more you can do on the outside,"

"Everybody's got a starting point. It might be walking 500 yards down to the local shop, but I always say that if you can get yourself out three times a week, no matter how far you walk, you'll see the benefits."

"Walking gives confidence because you're feeling in control of your body."

"We've all been through stages in our life where we haven't been as active as we should, but walking is so attainable that you'll feel your confidence growing knowing you're doing something just for yourself."

"I love the beginning of the day because it's full of promise, and when you're up early it feels like you're part of something unique that no one else is seeing."

"The beauty of walking is that as long as you've got comfortable clothes, you can do it. That said, the most important thing is having shoes that are comfortable!"

"Selling food on the streets is very uncertain. You’ve got to be a bit of a gambler and you’ve got to be really, really resilient and willing to get on with a lot of hard work. It’s really physical, but for those who ‘get it’, it creates an amazing energy to be around. I wanted to create more of that."

"I love consolidating talents. I wanted to create a new movement that provides strength in numbers for street traders and cultivates more people doing great food on the streets. Festival organisers prefer to deal with collectives rather than individuals."

"We want to democratise good food. The idea of 'street food' is being trendified as a career option. But we're saying: let's leverage this so it touches all cultures, not just middle-class life-changers."

"‎It's the biggest short-form social knowledge library on the internet, I believe. We create the knowledge store, and we have interactive tools and community functions."

"Ask yourself if you’re ready to get comfortable with nothing being predictable and flying by the seat of your pants for the foreseeable future. If you like to have certainty about your future, this may not be for you."

"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."

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

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

"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"."

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

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

"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."

"This is an almost unique case of how a can be endangered by trade without specific demand. It was literally unknown in until only five years ago. There was always a local trade, within the and islands, the only places where it occurs. These islands form a chain from northern to in the Philippines. Then suddenly, hundreds of birds were captured and exported. In 1992 about 1,000 were captured, at least 700 of which were exported. In that year, at least 200 died from disease and neglect at the premises of one dealer in Jakarta. I saw dozens crowded together in the cages of a dealer in Singapore. This would have been appalling whatever the species."

"Parrots were not designed to live in houses. They are noisy and destructive and suffer probably more than any other animal when kept in an unstimulating environment. They need constant interaction, either with a human or another parrot, to keep them happy and healthy. Keeping a parrot is so much more demanding than keeping a dog or cat. Alas, the fact that many owners have failed, and failed miserably, is evidenced in the growing number of parrot refuges. They are filled with feather-plucked or phobic parrots whose former owners had no idea of their emotional needs."

"Parent-rearing keeps the pairs occupied for weeks or months, according to the species. They need the occupation. Rearing reduces the monotony of the days and weeks and years which have little to distinguish them. Boredom and lack of stimulation is a very real problem for the more intelligent species. Many s enjoy family life and most "owners" obtain a lot of enjoyment from seeing family groups in an . (And I do mean an aviary and not a little suspended cage where close confinement can result in aggressive encounters.)"

"... Colombia has one of the highest, if not the highest, number of bird species within its shores of any country worldwide: currently believed to be 1,875 (Compare that with just over 300 species found in the UK!). This high number is attributable to its unique location and to its . It is the only country in that has an Atlantic and a Pacific coast and it is also unique in stretching from to the . Three mountain ranges of the magnificent occupy the western part of the country; in the east the habitats vary from lush and flat s to sandy desert. Given this variety of s, it is not surprising that Colombia has the second or third highest number of parrot species worldwide, a total of 52. This is exceeded by Brazil with about 72 species and possibly by Australia with 52 or 53 species. (These numbers could be revised at any time as DNA research often indicates that a particular species is, in fact, two species.) There is a sad statistic connected with Colombia's 50 plus parrot species: at least 12 are in imminent danger of extinction."

"I can't emphasize enough how important parent-rearing is, because by hand-rearing we are denying s their birthright unless it is possible to wean them with ... other birds of their own species."

"You don’t matter. You should be happy to just work at Starbucks. You should just be happy to become a cleaner and have a job like that. You should just be happy that you are safe. It is an additional form of re-traumatisation that happens to refugees, and there is no solution for it right now."

"It is surprising to me that investors haven’t realised like what good deal there is to invest in female founders and continue to throw money at this."

"My firm belief is that a lot of the businesses women are creating feel more lifestyle."

"And therefore when you’re going into that finance community, which is very male dominated, it’s quite difficult to get that connection and the genuine insight and understanding around those businesses."

"We're on this mission to try to enable tens of thousands of women, initially in the UK and then around the world, to be able to have that great flexible but sustainable business but with all that support and mentoring from us."

"I always get in trouble when I say I want to build a $1bn business, because our shareholders say ‘Nancy you shouldn’t be declaring all of that stuff’, But I do want to build a big business."

"About 60 per cent of the traffic comes in from natural search."

"The company also performs that little techie trick known as "search engine optimisation", so that if you want to know how to make the perfect teriyaki chicken, open a bottle of champagne without spilling any, or build your own cold-fusion nuclear reactor etc, it should come out pretty near the top of your Google search."

"I noticed that women were active in their communities and yes, they were talking about love, beauty, relationships, but the biggest thing I noticed was that that were also talking about wanting to start a business."

"I started and ran Women in Business for five years, and we did mentoring around the country."

"I sat on the beauty industry trade board CEW and I saw so much innovation in beauty."

"‎I wanted to create a brand new concept and it’d have to be steeped in personal service."

"It had to be in private homes yet still be social because we all like to share."

"It can take time to find the right balance, but I would say I have always tried to “blend” my life with work, although it can be hard sometimes. If you love what you do it makes it a lot less stressful. I can often be found doing my work emails whilst watching my children on the sports field, or taking my mum on store visits with me."

"I think they need to follow a career path that they are passionate about, whatever field that may be in"

"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?"

"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 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."