Words matter. These are the best Ana Patricia Botin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.
Being different is critical.
When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.
It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.
I’m very happy in the U.K.; I love it here. Even the weather – I’m from a place where it rains almost as much.
We didn’t invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.
Profit, wealth creation, competition – these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.
We can help companies committed to addressing global challenges such as climate change.
I get the sense that the British do not like to look at things on the bright side of life. Maybe it has something to do with the weather.
We can support innovators and entrepreneurs.
Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But going to work for a small company if you are really good? No way.
We are going to make people who do some things with Santander into loyal customers who bank with us every day. This is what will allow us to compete in a world where banking customers have more and more choice. If we don’t do this, then we won’t grow in the next decade.
The thing that really sticks – and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same – is just thinking about the next day, the next week.
I am confident that our experience, our scale, our intimate knowledge of the needs of our customers put us on the front line of economic and social progress.
We need to stop frowning upon failure whilst criticising those that succeed.
We’re a boring retail and commercial bank.
I don’t think of us as defending ourselves. I think of us as a challenger, an attacker.
We need to change how we run banks. We need to change the culture. If we get it right, we can have a huge impact.
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
I would love it if you became a Santander customer.
I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.
You are not going to get married through technology. You are not going to buy a house through technology.
I think cash will be around for a long time.
It’s true that I’m always happy to walk away.
I’m confident in our team and our capacity to continue to deliver.
Santander gives you a unique opportunity to invest in the U.K. economy.
We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.
I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.
If the government is funding itself at 2 per cent, you know, how much are you going to pay savers if you want to lend money at a cheaper rate? People have the incentive to build a factory or open new stores. It is a trade-off.
I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.
We are the most British of Britain’s banks. This always gets a chuckle; I don’t why.
I have a very, very difficult job.
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family… I mean, of the bank.
Everybody has their own style.
I didn’t join a bank because my father worked in a bank or because I thought I was going to be a banker or because I thought I was going to be where I am today.
