"“You just have the most amazing group of interesting people driving change and impact, and I feel so fortunate to get to learn from them every day,”"

"“I absolutely adore Malala. I find her very inspiring. Equally, I find Emma Watson incredibly inspiring and as Angela Merkel is now finished in office I would love the opportunity to hear from her... and then I'm really inspired by the decisions that Alexandre Arnault makes, so I would love to be able to get him on stage too.”"

"“They started looking for a new CEO and I was headhunted. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I knew I was excited by it as soon as I got to know the board. It just cemented that this is absolutely what I wanted to do,”"

"“It's very transparent. It's a very non-hierarchical, relaxed working culture and creative and collaborative.”"

"“Sweden is so conscious in its impact and sustainability agenda, and businesses see that they have a responsibility to impact society positively in the long term. And that's something that I think is very unique to this market and I think the rest of the world needs to be educated on.”"

"It’s just having the time and capacity to do them."

"“I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest to Brilliant Minds in 2018 and 2019. And I had the most amazing experience. I thought it was a really unique gathering of the most interesting people convening on the most important issues of our time.”"

"I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be."

"I want to improve about myself, for example, I took this role and it was a much more public facing role."

"Look, I talk to strangers all the time…I met my husband on an airplane. You know, I've met so many interesting people on airplanes.”"

"There is a stage presence that you have to have."

"“I've always been a little bit like this. I'm huge on New Year's resolutions. I'm huge on setting goals, but I think we're always an evolution…You grow, and you learn things about yourself, and you read more. And I think that it's an evolution.""

"“I had the feedback that I was quite alpha and I saw that behavior in myself as well. I felt to be a really effective and well-respected CEO, you had to have that energy. But then I saw somebody I was managing, a young woman, have that energy as well and I didn't like seeing that I'd influenced somebody to behave like that because that's what they thought they needed to do to succeed.”"

"I wanted to fix my posture."

"“in the beginning. There were many times I was mistaken for an executive assistant instead of the CEO when people arrived to meet the CEO”"

"“We have to bring young people in and really equip them, and move them through really fast. But we also have to up-skill – they are going to be the engineers for tomorrow.”"

"“Even out of the recession, we don’t believe that is going to come down massively,”"

"“As a country we walked away from apprenticeships and manufacturing generally. Now it’s very much back on the agenda, but we’ve got a lot of catching up to do to make sure we’re got the right skills.""

"“It was hugely tough but we decided that my career would take the lead, so we put his business on ice and we went,” she says. “I have a great husband, that’s one of the magic ingredients.”"

"“Industry must step up and help young people bridge the gap between education and employment,”"

"“…whilst I was always very clear about where I wanted to go, I have always been willing to kind of like throw it all up in the air and try something new.”"

"I would say my posture wasn't bad previously, but it wasn't excellent."

"“We cannot leave this problem to the Government and schools. We need to work together to help young people – and to develop the next generation of skilled employees for the future.”"

"All three of those pieces together have given us fundamentally different financial characteristics"

"“I have had an amazing career over the past 40 years and worked with extraordinary people who share my passion for the food and drink industry,”"

"We can take things that we've made in one country and move them to another country."

""Now it is time for me to do something else while maintaining my interest in skills and young people. For me, the future is about continuing to be involved in the things I love while finding more time to enjoy my wonderful family and, in particular, my beautiful grandsons.”"

"We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely."

"Emerging markets, our exposure to emerging markets, emerging markets are now about 10% of all of Pearson's revenue and growing at more than 20% a year."

"For us, finding a solution is very, very important,"

"Those are markets where we have not only great demographic characteristics but we can use our scale."

"Well I think there are three dynamics that have really been at work at Pearson's this year and a few years before this that have changed our fortunes."

"The ubiquity of digital across Pearson, not only in how we make things, but how we sell them and how we deliver them to our customers."

"Someone like Chrissie Rucker of The White Company, who creates a successful chain of shops, doesn't have the power to shape law that a senior judge has but she may create jobs for hundreds and significant wealth, as we report on the opposite page."

"Another is the business mix."

"We are just far more focused on businesses that have a lot to do with each other, and that are consistent."

"What is very important for us is regulatory standards. Absolutely key is that we have a convergence of that, that we avoid red tape,"

"I started working with a postural expert."

"The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of Commons."

"I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York."

"I'd studied what I wanted (philosophy and history) while ensuring I did the maths for arts students course."

"There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma."

"It will not be religious about it."

"When I left Cambridge for what was then the top name in mergers and acquisitions in the City."

"It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly."

"I'd never heard of the glass ceiling, still less the concrete one."

"I learnt then that you can fail and you don't die."

"over my dead body."

"The experience taught her a valuable lesson."

"Pearson will still behave as it has in the past, which is to review all the time what the best assets are."