I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.