“And to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.”

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change – to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.

As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

I’ve always been hopeful about Scotland’s prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.