“Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality pla...” — Jim Ratcliffe Quote

Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.

I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I'm an inch below the standard, it'll be chaos.

I don't really care about people who are ranked below me or whatever. I just want the belt. If other people are calling me out, that's OK. That's on them.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.