I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.