Words matter. These are the best Richard Quest Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you’ll truly be like a Brit!
I have always loved broadcasting – as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, ‘How do they do that?’
The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.
I’m a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That’s why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.
New Zealand’s economy may be more immune… from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it’s not that immune.
You don’t need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.
People always want to get behind the image on the screen, and I’m not sure there is one. I don’t put on an act.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?
If you raise taxes on the rich, you don’t raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it’s doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.
You have to give an element of performance on television.
You have to give an element of performance on television.
Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.
I did badly in high school. I don’t know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.
I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.
People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can’t stand me; they hate my voice.
I live in the day. Yes, I make plans for tomorrow, but I don’t get so consumed by it. The time you spend with your family and friends, whatever you could be doing, enjoy them now. I live in the day.
Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled routes and open up new long thin routes.
I’m a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That’s why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.
Davos is probably the world’s most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don’t be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.
When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, ‘Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?’
I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren’t prepared to understand that it’s a complex piece of machinery.
In Davos during the WEF, we have government heads like David Cameron, Shinzo Abe, Tony Abbott, and Dilma Rousseff. These are the people who can actually get something done.
If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.
I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
‘Selfie’ is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela’s funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
I don’t think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.
If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.
Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there’s no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.
The reality is the three gulf carriers – Emirates, Qatar and Etihad – are forces with which to be reckoned. Strategic investments by co-operative governments have given them large fleets and huge airports. They have created a flourishing environment while established carriers languish.
There can be no equivocation. I am Jewish.
Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.
Go to The Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. It’s an old-fashioned pub, and from there, you can look out over the London skyline.
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it’s highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.
Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.
You don’t need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.
What happens in Davos stays in Davos.
I’m given an enormous amount of freedom, within the constraints of the editorial policies of the network. One of the Quest shows started off with me doing the cancan kicking… you know, the high kick, with dancing girls. We never thought CNN would agree to that.
The reality is the three gulf carriers – Emirates, Qatar and Etihad – are forces with which to be reckoned. Strategic investments by co-operative governments have given them large fleets and huge airports. They have created a flourishing environment while established carriers languish.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
Never let it be said that the world of international economics isn’t exciting or adventurous. OK, I exaggerate, because not even the most imaginative mind could construe the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to be a nail-biting barn burner.
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can’t stand me; they hate my voice.
If you raise taxes on the rich, you don’t raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it’s doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
There can be no equivocation. I am Jewish.
Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled routes and open up new long thin routes.
I passionately believe if you put on an act, the audience will be able to tell. That does not mean that I am going to be talking in top volume all the time in private conversations… Clearly, broadcasting has to be an extension of yourself; it’s an exaggerated version of you.
Whenever there’s a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what’s happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it’s valid. If you don’t do the second part, you’re basically a bilge pump.
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it’s highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.
I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
I don’t think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.
If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.
I don’t like the Sunday newspapers – I read them because I have to. ‘Sunday Times,’ ‘Telegraph,’ ‘Independent’ on Sunday – I find them heavy and too much! I prefer ‘The Economist.’
Whenever there’s a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what’s happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it’s valid. If you don’t do the second part, you’re basically a bilge pump.
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
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