"I’m not allowed to say I’m a lousy engineer because the founders I met this morning who are in the audience, and thank you, StartX founders told me."

"I didn’t enjoy it as much."

"I can’t change the world around you, but I’ll educate you."

"I will educate you, but I can’t promise that you will have a career because I don’t know if attitudes are gonna change."

"Finding sponsors, finding mentors, finding people, because I didn’t have role models in my immediate family, but reaching out to people."

"I’m constantly affirming."

"How do I make it easier always?‎*I’m absolute believer in affirmations."

"I often joke about it that I have a thick skin."

"I think it takes a lot of resilience for sure."

"That was like the number one concern, how is this girl ever gonna find her husband."

"I remember my mom saying, “oh my God, you’re so ambitious."

"I remember everything was a negotiation."

"I remember growing up and I grew up in a small town in India."

"I can see the number of people who said, no, it can’t be done."

"Great to have the full team Chanel and family support here."

"I wanna make it count and I’m very happy to have members of team Chanel here with me."

"My husband and both my boys are here. *I’m pretty sure they never watched any of the links I sent them."

"I must say I’m really happy to be here with my family."

"It’s bigger than that."

"How do I ensure I make it easier for those who come after me."

"Lift as you climb has become a huge mantra for me."

"Never say that again."

"It will not be religious about it."

"It will be careful in deciding how to handle it."

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

"over my dead body."

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

"The experience taught her a valuable lesson."

"Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away."

"You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they require very long-term choices and long-term plans"

"Time for me, time for the company."

"I just felt like it was time."

"That's what you do after dinner."

"I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do."

"I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Who is this person?"

"I knew very little about public companies at that point."

"If you fail, you don’t die. Once you realise that, everything is possible."

"We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson"

"Try to work on something that has a purpose."

"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."

"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."

"During that early period, when suffragette tactics consisted of trying to reach the House of Commons, and in the first arrests when speaking in the lobby, my sister Anne was the first Scotswoman arrested. She had gone to London a day or two before. Called by my father to come downstairs, I found him with the Glasgow Herald open before him with a banner headline in the centre page: “Glasgow Councillor’s daughter arrested”. He said, “did you know about this.” I replied, “I knew she was going to a meeting but I did not know anything else. He looked at me under his brows in the way we regarded as serious and I oozed out of the room. He came home in the evening quite reconciled to it, and when Anne came home after fourteen cold days in Holloway Prison he took her to a municipal reception saying to her, “Put on your prettiest dress and come with me.” She looked charming and he introduced her all round as “My prisoner daughter”."

"We think change can often happen through humour, so every year we try and do stuff on World Toilet Day."

"What I love about WaterAid is that while we are absolutely passionately committed to doing everything we can in terms of poverty eradication."

"So I was absolutely delighted to be offered the job."

"On that basis I was very interested but I knew I was coming down with a terrible case of malaria and had to get my application in within a couple of days while I could still function."

"I was told that wasn’t the case, they wanted someone to lead on women’s issues, girls’ empowerment, people’s rights and community mobilisation."