"“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.”"

"“…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.”"

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

"“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.""

"It’s bigger than that."

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

"“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 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.”"

"It was the kind of company I knew I wanted to work for."

"“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.”"

""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.”"

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

"“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,”"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"“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.”"

"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."

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

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

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

"Nobody used that word, and I did not then have children but I had noticed there was only one female director in the entire department."

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

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

"I took a pay cut and went into newspapers."

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

"The experience taught her a valuable lesson."

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

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

"It will not be religious about it."

"I moved back to London and started at Quintessentially’s London headquarters."

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

"Much depends on what you call a top job."

"“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.""