Top 29 Quotes by Jim Ratcliffe

About Jim Ratcliffe

These are some quotes by British author Jim Ratcliffe Businessman, who was born on October 18, 1952.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Jim Ratcliffe

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

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

Jim Ratcliffe

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.

Jim Ratcliffe

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

Jim Ratcliffe

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

Jim Ratcliffe

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

Jim Ratcliffe

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

Jim Ratcliffe

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

Jim Ratcliffe

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

Jim Ratcliffe

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