"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.”"

"We have reasonably regular reports of things like bits of ceilings that will develop a crack, sewage pipes that will break, CT scanners that will break down, all the normal wear and tear of a building."

"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."

"If people find Bupa to be an uncompassionate machine, then our strategy has failed and we have wasted our marketing money.""

"Discrimination, have no place in HPFT or in wider society."

"Through the real hard yards of recovery, stabilisation and gradual improvement and to put the foundations in place for the 10 year plan."

"The suffering of the people of Southport, and others touched by the violence there, is unfathomable."

"You could forget about the building and concentrate on just putting on a great show."

"Team work makes the dream work, so choose the right collaborators."

"But if the building starts falling down, you’d regret that decision."

"It will inevitably take a toll on those NHS staff involved in the response."

"I had been to a NASCAR race once and I was like, ‘yeah, this is not for me"

"My passion was around using financial statements as the scoreboard of your business to increase profitability and improve cash flow and decrease taxation"

"I’m delighted to be handing over the role of Chair at ACL to an excellent successor in Lesley Cowley. Her strong track record working in bodies with important public roles gives Lesley the right background to take over chairing the Board of ACL as the company prepares for continued regulatory change and commercial growth.”"

"The world has changed, we realise we must get ourselves out there more. Word of mouth only goes so far, but if you don't have a social presence, then to some extent you don't exist."

"I’m fascinated by what it means to be an embodied person in Western society."

"It is the desire to satisfy people and I can’t always be sure I've done enough or got it right. Sometimes it is impossible, but I own my mistakes, which I think is important as well."

"I’m excited to be joining ACL’s Board to help guide the company as it manages the pressures of coordination at a growing number of constrained airports while staying at the forefront of technical progress and customer service.”"

"As we look forward to welcoming Lesley Cowley to ACL’s Board, I’d like to record my sincere thanks to Jeff Halliwell for the role he’s played as Chair since 2013, guiding the Board through a period of major development for ACL and its governance.”"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The racing department was just hemorrhaging money,"

"I know from my time at Guy’s and St Thomas’ how hard incidents like this can be for those treating victims and supporting families."

"It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history."

"Rural women are the backbone for families, communities and nations, but they're suffering the worst impacts of climate change and conflict and go unheard in legislation and remain unprotected and unsupported.""

"He was very receptive to what I had to say, and I was very receptive to what he had to say. We tried to cast people who [didn’t look] too contemporary, because it is a period piece. So I helped guide him through marrying a look with an acting skill."

"He’s just a great, very funny guy, and he has a singular way of approaching film. The biggest thing for me was having to guide him through the casting process for a narrative film, because he was used to doing his own thing with documentaries."

"Aunjanue is great. We were very lucky to get her. We wanted to have her in the film because she’s just so fresh."

"Be prepared to leave it in the room, because you can overthink it. I’d say to young actors to look at the work of great actors. If there’s someone you like, take a look at their entire career and how they’ve grown."

"how is it possible that the number one most prestigious team in Porsche racing is owned by a woman, and that is something that isn't even on my trajectory’"

"“I am interested in exploring narratives that reflect the diversity of experiences of the African diaspora. I believe that we have a lens that is unique because of our cultural duality and we do not see enough of those across the breadth of output in the European cinema space.”"

"I really believe you make a different contribution in different roles in the NHS."

"I have made my contribution at the centre, and it is time for me to go back and run a big and exciting organisation."

"I think what’s been clear is that Wes and I have really tried to work closely in this much more ‘one team’ way over the past nine months, which was different to how things had worked in the past."

"I’ve done the job I needed to do, which was to lead the NHS through the pandemic, to lead my colleagues ."

"We know the unacceptable violent and racist events in so many parts of the country will be affecting many of our staff, service users and their families."

"HPFT is a place where everyone is valued and respected racist behaviour and attitudes."

"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."

"The professionalism, too, of the NHS staff in Southport and elsewhere who are dealing with the consequences, and of course those in our police."

"There are other things that have sustained the NHS."

"One of them is stoicism, that great British trait of carrying on through adversity."

"The more that we can do to encourage vaccination."

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