Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.

When you look at good governance, you also need to look at how you approach the subject.

I think when you take decisions, you should take them not on the basis of what you believe is a convenient outcome, but what you believe is the right outcome. That's something that is important.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

I am not looking for board positions, I am looking for good governance.

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.