All Quotes

"Lots of things go on in lots of marriages that are less than ideal and mostly they stay private and that’s how it really should be."

"The debt crisis, losing the house, losing the security that you need when you are the mother of two small children, making a completely new life, that was the toughest thing I have ever done."

"The second judge treated me as if I was a liar, but I don’t move easily. I stand my ground."

"A partnership is about helping your partner in time of difficulty. That is when it matters. I am just not a quitter."

"I’m tempted to quote Lady Longford on her husband, the Labour peer and prison reformer:when asked, 'Have you ever thought of divorce?’, she replied, 'Divorce never; murder, frequently’."

"Fidelity is a great quality but kindness, loyalty and resilience are also very important in bad times."

"Intimations of old age are much easier to face together. That’s not to say the marriage gets easier, but it would be very much harder growing old without each other."

"To me everything has to work round family, and fortunately it has"

"As someone whose life was saved by my own hospital, I would say if you’re really ill I would go to the NHS – I would not go to a private hospital"

"I found there was a field called photoelectrochemistry, invented by the American military in its attempts to build a solar rechargeable battery"

"The first thing I’d do would be to try to curtail population growth, because that puts a strain on so many resources as well as energy – food, land, housing. And that appears to be a question of economic development"

"Onshore wind power to me is clean and green, although some people dislike it. It’s the cheapest form of energy, so these things will take their place"

"try to avoid the boom and bust that afflicts the development of renewables. I’m not a hair-shirted environmentalist, I’m not anti-nuclear, I’m not even anti-fossil fuels – but I do believe in the reality of global warming"

"“It sounds extraordinary, but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.”"

"I’ve always loved my work"

"By bringing physical and mental healthcare together for the first time and embedding research at the heart of the hospital, we will treat the whole child, not just their illness"

"It has been such a long time in the gestation… I want to live to see it open"

"It is an immensely challenging environment out there and much difficult and less charming than it was 50 years ago"

"Over the last 20 years the situation in Gioia Tauro has drastically changed. Italian rules are complicated and many other competitors such as Taranto, Cagliari, Algeciras, Valencia, Port Said, Damietta, Piraeus and others came up. The volumes decrease of the Medcenter Container Terminal is linked mainly to the economic slowdown in China"

"When you climb a mountain, sometimes you slip, you change jackets, but in the end, all mountains are climbable."

"Women in the company are just as important as men, it depends on how they behave. My rules? No pants; they shouldn't judge us by our clothes."

"I wanted a pink ship. It was a crazy idea, but it worked."

"Not having children of my own was certainly a very hard choice, but also a very clear and rational one."

"A husband can sometimes be inconvenient, but children are."

"A great help in my life came from someone up there who loved me and helped me."

"“I think it is women who feel inadequate in a man’s world more than men creating obstacles.”"

"If I have to name one special attribute of LSCT, it is the superior transit time we offer which results in saving end-to-end supply chain cost for shippers in Asia"

"While the average rail freight in Italy is below 10 per cent of the total throughput, the figure is 35 per cent in La Spezia. This means about three out of every ten containers are transported in or out of our port via trains"

"While Asia will continue to be the driver of world trade for the foreseeable future and will produce ever larger ports, I believe Europe will continue to prosper when it comes to other aspects of supply chain"

"In the meantime, while I think North European ports, such as Rotterdam and Antwerp, will continue to be amongst the top performing ports in the region, I think other ports will catch up. In fact, if there is peace in North Africa, I think the Mediterranean will attract more ships due to our location."

"“Sometimes the wave of life lifts you up, it pushes your ship, the wind gusts in the same direction, it blows the spinnaker up and you just go. You are at the ship’s wheel, but it’s the wind energy that leads you further, and you feel that incredible and dangerous sensation of ruling the forces of nature.”"

"Let’s use the words people are uncomfortable using – lesbian, gay"

"It’s not about me. It’s about what you do for other people. For me, it’s so important because you need these role models."

"I said ‘I’m coming out, I can’t live with this’"

"What you do is, you de-genderise every statement you make. You’re in a business environment; you de-gender everything, You never say he or she. You do it constantly. All these little things, that if you haven’t experienced you just wouldn’t appreciate. And suddenly you can be free"

"It’s interesting, they feel awkward. That’s why when I talk about this I say let’s use the words that people are uncomfortable using – lesbian, gay."

"“I tried to be something I wasn’t. I behaved like a man.”"

"“I gave a clear instruction to my partner not to phone me in the office because I was so worried about my colleagues suspecting that I was having a relationship with a woman.”"

"“I decided to come out during the interview process so that I wasn’t going into it with any secrets. I just brought it up with the group CEO and he was fine. You think, why did it take so long? That’s why I encourage everyone to do it.”"

"“You spend half your energy hiding the reality, leading a dual life, making excuses. There’s a lovely story about someone in the industry who was born male and was male at work but had a female persona in her personal life. She was outed because of technology linking Facebook photos and her iPhone. After years of being a man at work but actually being a woman it was fantastic. Everybody was supportive; she’s never looked back.”"

"“People are a bit reluctant to reveal what is going on in their world. And others are nervous talking about it because they don’t know what to say and don’t want to look silly.”"

"“It’s good to have someone completely different to you to chat about things with.”"

"“People don’t know who to trust any more. So, we’ve got to find another mechanism to include much bigger parts of the population, and use different metrics to measure success of a country.”"

"I can remember, it was in the 1990s and I had been working in the insurance for about 14 years and I was offered my first promotion. This was going to be the first time I was going to manage one person at work, and do you know what? I said'No'."

"I look back at that 32-year old Inga, and I don't recognize her now-but that was how under-confident I was. I don't think I was ready or good enough to take the job."

"If we can get this gender thing right, we can then get it right for all sorts of other groups that feel perhaps marginalized or under-represented, particularly in the senior levels in the workplace."

"When I took the role of CEO, I was basically running the entire ma"

"It is pretty similar to being the CEO of a public listed company but you’ve got to get thousands of people to do what you want without them being your employees. That was a really tough challenge"

"“If we are leaders, we try to give the answers all the time instead of spending time asking people how they are feeling"

"Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the Doctrine itself, not the Man. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle."