Kate Reardon

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.