The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.