All Quotes

"Art has been woven into our lives. The children have taken it up, too. Our 15-year-old does wonderful paintings."

"They all had powerful personalities and a lot of it was expressed through their clothes."

"I was always fascinated by the power of clothes and how clothes and fashion are evolving."

"I would spend my Saturdays rifling through thrift stores and saving up for things I couldn’t afford."

"Tom smartly put computers in even back then and we gathered everyone’s address, and that became email, and so we already had all the data we were really connected to our customers by the time we launched online."

"They were all quite new at the same time as we were launching on the internet."

"So if we said to Erdem or Roksanda, “Help, we’ve run out of stock,” they would be incredibly helpful about making more for us."

"I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life"

"Legacy”? Just a bit, then! Whilst much of it is proud “legacy”, the bank, like every well-established financial services firm, had no shortage of ageing infrastructure and applications to clean up. Mercifully, a major overhaul had already born fruit when Russell joined in 2024, she cheerfully admits."

"I think the partnership bonus was the most critical [lesson]. [I learned early on that] you work better in a partnership than you do in a traditional supplier relationship, because you understand what your client is trying to do better, and you'll go the extra mile to help them do that."

"They touch almost everything at the bank” she says on production deployments, citing “anomaly detection on our asset servicing platforms, trade settlements; on our Client Services team, we have a multi-agentic solution; these are delivering real value in dollar terms and productivity terms. I would say that scale [of deployment] is pretty unique…”"

"environment you're trying to play into, you can standardize your own products, make your own business better… get into that real win-win for both organizations” she adds. “Nobody's successful without great partnerships. That is a real focus for me in engineering.”"

"Exclusivity is key to us. We need to justify every single penny of the taxpayers’ money. I’m not opposed to second windows, but when we do choose second windows, we do so with great care. There has to be a strategic purpose for us to choose them."

"We’ve had great successes in what we call Brit crime (British crime)—Happy Valley, Sherwood, Shetland, Vera, all of those shows. Even though the target audience is a little bit older, the great thing about those shows is that they work both on linear and on SVT Play. I call Brit crime our “bread and butter.” We’re always on the lookout for the next big, long-running Brit crime series."

". It’s been like this for quite a long time now, but the Nordics are quite far ahead with how the audience behaves. It’s a very picky audience, there’s a lot of content, and there’s also a high willingness to pay for content. So, we need to try to understand which need we fill for them as public-service"

"It sounds so cliche to say, but it has to be must-see television. That’s what we look for all the time. We need big, high-quality shows with great talent. But being public-service, we also have the luxury to try new and innovative formats with new talent."

"Honour the relationship between the customer/user and their digital footprint."

"Is the customer/user the predominant focus? – the proposition should be designed around them to get the best chance of being successful"

"What leadership is needed in this changed world? Admitting you may not know all the answers, prizing delegation rather than control, encouraging appropriate boldness over caution and value collaboration over individual effort."

"Ensure you have digital talent in your organisation."

"Today Waste Warriors has several projects working across tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh. My heart will always lie in the Dharamshala but that project has reached a very difficult point,""

"The boys who work at Waste Warriors are like my brothers and I am ashamed that I can only pay them a meagre amount for the efforts they put in. They hike up and down the mountain, every week, in every season, in every state of health, just to pick up the garbage. They go from door to door collecting garbage from the homes that are brought down from the remote villages in the mountain for proper disposal"

"This is not a sexy industry, I know. There is a social stigma attached to the job I do and I understand that it is even harder for people to turn up, as they have, for the cleanups we have organised. Waste Warriors has helped provide employment to the lowest class of people in the country and a chance to live with dignity.""

"The money that the boys are making does not even cover the basic expense for the effort! The people refuse to participate and the shopkeepers do not wish to pool their benefits with the boys who are cleaning up. The people of Himachal are not willing to participate"

"People think that Waste Warriors has some kind of funding from like the Queen of England or something. In India, NGOs have such a bad reputation that people don't want to believe that there are a few organisations working honestly and transparently for years as they believe in the cause."

"I’m Client 1 of our own transformation...""

"I got quite a reputation for my Lotus skills"

"Once the highest value chunks are identified we synthesize the final answer and include citations back the underlying source documents”"

"But I think the ability to be able to scale every aspect of what we do; create key partnerships with the hyperscalers in terms of what we want to develop, invest in, procure and go to market with; it sets us up very nicely.”"

"“I think the bigger challenge, which we've all had on the cloud journey, is how you train your teams to work very closely with your partners and understand the capabilities, the economics, the telemetry and make sure that we are using it and scaling as best we can.”"

"One is [being] the technology officer who is responsible for all of the technology that powers McKinsey, all of the technology that we use to enable our clients; and then all of the platforms that enable both of those things.”"

"We still have a ways to go, but at least it's providing the ability for us to understand how we should be using Gen AI to be more agile and hopefully productive in our ability to serve our clients; to understand how we need to change our ways of working and the talent set required to do so"

"It’s when you are at school that you are very open to shaping entrepreneurial thinking and [developing] an appetite for risk."

"The curriculum needs to be supplemented with an award programme that encourages and recognises this entrepreneurial spirit and gives a wider range of topics for women to be recognised for."

". Nurture your curiosity and explore any ideas you have. Some of the best ideas come from when you question the world around you. Not accepting how things work and having an open curiosity is what sets some of the best entrepreneurs apart from others."

"His violent action at Basle seems to have resulted from an earnest desire for the reform of the Church, and having made his submission to Nicholas V, he is believed to have done penance for his former disloyal and schismatical conduct. He died shortly after in the odour of sanctity. His private life had always been a penitential one."

"There is not in the history of heroism a figure more forlorn and pathetic than that of the President of the Council of Basel."

"“Do your research: Know the size of the market, know your competitors, ask your friends. Then be honest: is this really going to work? If so create the minimum viable product and go for it. You'll never know unless you try”."

"“The person who is probably putting the most pressure on yourself is you. Remember to take it easy on yourself sometimes!”"

"It’s changing the way people interact with politics"

"We are seeing a power shift — people who weren’t interested in politics or felt powerless now want to become MPs, while the politicians who are successful are those who engage with issues using digital tools,"

"We are more like Facebook or Twitter than campaigning sites"

"The openness is part of why we see MPs using the site"

"but that’s separate to my role”. Most people come to the site after seeing links on Facebook, email and WhatsApp rather than Twitter, which is “a way to communicate to decision makers than drive traffic"

"I’m torn when I’m asked to be on a panel and am the only woman. Do I need to do it to make a point or do I say I won’t participate until they find more women? I’ve done that before. Subtle sexism that goes unchallenged is a big problem that you must call out"

"Subtle sexism that goes unchallenged is a big problem that you must call out"

"I often hear people say two things about today's society – that we are powerless to do anything to change things and that it doesn't matter because young people in particular don't care about politics. That makes me really annoyed, because what I see every day through our users on Change.org is that the opposite is true."

"Petitions are just the start"

"They have to have a compelling story, a tangible ask and be mobilising the people who sign it. Rarely is a petition just going to win on its own."

"“As long as there are women in the world, there will always be beauty establishments.”"