Quotes by Dido Harding - Page 1

I enjoy being slightly scared.
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Scared
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Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.
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Crime
Our Generation
Unfortunately
Generation
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Our customers will judge us on our actions, not our words.
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Customers
Words
Actions
Judge
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Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.
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Competition
Growth
Drives
In The End
Monopolies
Opposed
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I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.
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Hesitation
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I'm a really big believer in chief executives not staying forever.
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Believer
Executives
Staying
Big Believer
Chief
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You have to have a thick skin if you think what you are doing is right.
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Thick
Thick Skin
Skin
Doing
Right
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I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.
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Confidence
Impression
False
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I promise you I try very hard to stay out of party politics. I run away from it.
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Party
Promise
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I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.
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Living Proof
Proof
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I am enormously proud of how we have transformed the TalkTalk customer experience.
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Transformed
Customer
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TalkTalk's culture is one of a start-up... new services, desire to innovate, move fast.
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Innovate
Start-Up
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Often when websites start running slowly, it's because they're under some form of attack.
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Slowly
Websites
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It's not a normal thing to receive a ransom demand in your inbox. I felt physically sick.
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Demand
Receive
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I think we'd be cutting off our hand to spite our face if we demonize private health care.
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Cutting
Health Care
Spite
Demonize
Hand
Private
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Learning what's happening in children's digital life is the best way to ensure that they're safe.
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Best Way
Life Best Learning
Ensure
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Every single company knows that there is more that they can do to keep themselves safe from cyber-crime.
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Safe
Single
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If I only had one day left in my life and it was riding a race or owning the Gold Cup winner, I'd ride a race.
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Gold
One Day
Riding
Winner
Life Day My Life
Cup
Owning
Ride
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I've always been of the view that two-term presidency rule is a pretty good one and CEOs shouldn't overstay their welcome.
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Presidency
Welcome
Ceos
Pretty Good
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If big, old-fashioned businesses don't attract female talent, then small up-and-coming ones will, and they will end up winning.
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Female
Talent
Winning
Attract
Businesses
Up-And-Coming
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When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.
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Obnoxious
Oxford
Thatcher
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If you have a bonus scheme that is so complicated or so sensitive that you can't tell people what it is, then you shouldn't be doing it.
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Bonus
Sensitive
Scheme
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It's very tempting to go part-time and take up a number of non-executive directorships because everyone is crying out for talented women.
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Part Time
Tempting
Crying
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TalkTalk was not a highly trusted brand before the cyber attack but customers now say that we looked after them in difficult circumstances.
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Cyber
Difficult Circumstances
Trusted
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I made a really stupid promise to my husband in my early 20s, when he and I were first going out, that I would retire as a jockey when I was 40.
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Early 20s
Husband
Promise
Stupid
Retire
Jockey
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I think that Britain's broadband vision needs to be about more people using broadband rather than macho claims about the speed of the technology.
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Broadband
Claims
Macho
Speed
More People
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If you're a cyber-criminal, the days of stealing data and then selling it for cash in the dark web - they're not so profitable as they used to be.
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Cash
Dark
Data
Profitable
Selling
Stealing
Web
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I miss the racing hugely. If you told me I could go off and do it tomorrow afternoon I would. For me that's always been my way of shutting everything off and relaxing.
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Afternoon
Racing
Hugely
Relaxing
Shutting
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But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.
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Compromise
Hopeless
Making Money
Businesses
Suited
Utterly
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When I was 14 my mum told my chemistry teacher she thought it was a waste of time girls going to university because they'd only just get married. I remember being so angry with her.
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Chemistry
Waste
Get Married
Waste Of Time
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Internet safety is quite like the road safety issues when I was growing up as a child. You had clunk click advertising and the green cross man coming into schools to talk to children.
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Advertising
Safety
Click
Cross
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I've stood in front of 500 extremely angry people in Waterford when we closed a call centre there. That's not fun, and the day you think it is fun is the day you shouldn't be doing it.
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Centre
Closed
Stood
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It is generally deemed acceptable to shuttle children and adults between London and Somerset every week, but the considered view is that it would be very cruel to do the same with a dog.
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Acceptable
London
Adult
Considered
Cruel
Deemed
Generally
Shuttle
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The number of things that can happen to a child online are just as many as can happen to a child in the playground, only it's more immediate and they have the whole world at their finger tips.
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Online
Tips
Finger
Immediate
Playground
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It is not often that one of the world's best entrepreneurs rings you up and says 'I've got this business we are about to float off as an independent company and we'd like you to be chief executive.'
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Independent
Rings
Best Business World
Chief
Chief Executive
Entrepreneurs
Executive
Float
Says
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Once it becomes mandatory to report that you've had data stolen, blackmailing you is a waste of time. Blackmailing you to keep quiet - you can't, because you've got a legal obligation to tell everyone.
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Obligation
Stolen
Waste
Report
Mandatory
Waste Of Time
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We don't have very many nights out on our own, and by most people's standards we don't have much of a social life. But for us the compromise works, and I think the best thing I ever did was to have a family.
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Compromise
Social Life
Standards
Life Best Family
Nights
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I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.
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Amazing
Implicit
Recognition
Subconscious
Decisions
Number
Pattern
Trained
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Digital safety is no different to physical safety. You can do your upmost to minimise it. You can arm yourself to protect yourself, but in the end there are criminals everywhere and that's the way of the world.
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Criminals
Safety
World Yourself Your
World Yourself Way
Arm
In The End
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If being open and honest with my customers is naive then it's fine with me. CEOs who hide behind that all-seeing, all-knowing veneer are playing a game anyway, it's not real. I am quite happy to be seen for who I am.
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Customers
Fine
Honest
Veneer
I Am Me Game
Anyway
Behind
Ceos
Game Me I Am
Game I Am Me
Hide
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I had this extraordinary role-model of rags to riches success in my grandfather and yet I was a girl, and girls in a very military family were not meant to have professional careers. I think that created the spur and edge to drive me on.
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Careers
Grandfather
Rags
Riches
Success Family Me
Edge
Spur
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My mental analogy for TalkTalk is an ageing Ford Cortina going flat out in the fast lane of the M4 in the pouring rain. We are always hammering along faster than anybody thinks is sensible, with things not quite working, but huge enthusiasm.
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Ageing
Enthusiasm
Fast Lane
Pouring
Rain
Sensible
Analogy
Flat
Flat Out
Ford
Hammering
Lane
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I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.
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Careers
Obnoxious
Perplexed
Me Look Remember
Look Me Remember
Secretaries
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I am a physical retailer by trade - if your shop is burgled you don't immediately think, 'Is it North Korea? Is it the Mafia?' But with cyber you don't know initially whether you're dealing with a state actor, as they call them, a small-time criminal, an insider.
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Cyber
Mafia
North Korea
I Am Your Know
Criminal
Initially
Insider
Shop
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I have an enormously privileged position. I make a lot of money - a matter of public record - I have a huge amount of help, and I'm more in control of the day and what I do than someone working shifts on the checkout, or running the produce department in a supermarket.
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Amount
Department
Huge
Position
Privileged
Produce
Huge Amount
Record
Shifts
Supermarket
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After seven extraordinary and fulfilling years, during which we have transformed TalkTalk's customer experience and laid the foundations for long-term growth, I've decided it's time for me to start handing over the reins at TalkTalk and focus more on my activities in public service.
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Fulfilling
Long Term
Public Service
Reins
Transformed
Time Experience Start
Activities
Customer
Foundations
Handing
Laid
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