Getting ahead:

It's all about grabbing the opportunities as they come up.

Change:

Managing change is more difficult when you are successful and it can be more frustrating.

Working for Dr Tony O'Reilly:

You always come away from a meeting feeling remotivated. He can really paint a vision and get people excited.

Telecoms and e-commerce:

Here we are a small island on the periphery of Europe - and along comes a new way of trading, which puts location at zero on the scale of importance.

Wedgwood:

We are acquirers rather than acquisitions. The Goulandris family owns 27 per cent of the company and they are not sellers.

Wages:

We should go a considerable distance to achieve it [partnership]. An unravelling of partnership could bring the whole house of cards crashing down.