Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

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

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

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.