“There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is t...” — Peter Hargreaves Quote

“There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.”

“We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.”

“I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.”

“I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'”

“That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.”

“There's an old adage of, 'This is what I do, it's not who I am.' There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can't separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it's a difficult line to manage.”