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We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.
Gillian Tans
Better
Able
Diverse
More
Features
Were
Quickly
Create
Product
Team
Found
We will invest more into China to make sure that our brand gets more known to Chinese customers.
Gillian Tans
Will
Our
More
Invest
Make
Known
Sure
Brand
Gets
China
Chinese
Customers
We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people.
Gillian Tans
People
Make
Sure
Want
Chinese
Chinese People
Products
Right
I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.
Gillian Tans
Day
Master
Possible
Getting
Much
If you run a global business, it's so important that you understand what happens in each place, and you can't do that remotely. I don't want to go anywhere and leave and not have seen the people who work for us. That doesn't feel good.
Gillian Tans
Work
Good
You
Business
Feel Good
People
Seen
Important
Run
Feel
Global
Remotely
Understand
Leave
Go
Want
Happens
Place
Anywhere
Us
Who
Each
Traveling is an experience that you can always carry with you. It makes the world come together more so we understand each other better.
Gillian Tans
You
Together
Experience
World
Better
Other
Carry
More
Come
Makes
Understand
Always
Each
Traveling
From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.
Gillian Tans
Best
Innovation
Aim
Our
Has-Been
Constant
Through
Days
Been
Testing
Customers
Create
Product
Early
Disruptive
Early Days
Many people think we are a technology company, but we are totally customer-led.
Gillian Tans
Technology
People
Think
Totally
Many
Company
My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of.
Gillian Tans
Family
Me
Creative
Risks
Mother
Thought
Entrepreneurial
Take
Pushed
She
Always
Very
Things
Eventually, we want to be able to say, whether in your own neighborhood or a city across the globe, our technology will be needed to break through barriers - whether it's money, time, languages, or simply choice.
Gillian Tans
Time
Technology
Money
Will
Own
Our
Say
Neighborhood
City
Able
Through
Simply
Globe
Want
Break
Whether
Choice
Across
Your
Languages
Barriers
Eventually
Needed
Booking.com started with just a website, but we've always thought of our company as being more than just a website.
Gillian Tans
Website
Thought
Our
More
Always
Than
Just
Being
Company
Started
An American customer can book in English all over the world, but also, somebody from Japan or China can book in their own language everywhere. We translate all of our content into these languages, and that's quite unique. We service our direct customers - the innkeepers - as well in their own language.
Gillian Tans
Service
Book
World
Language
Somebody
Own
Our
Everywhere
Direct
Over
Also
Well
Content
American
Quite
China
Japan
Customer
Customers
Translate
Languages
English
Unique
A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.
Gillian Tans
Time
Great
Money
Thought
Long
Long Time
Build
Pay
Other
Our
Spent
Broke
System
Great Idea
Paris
Had
Long Time Ago
Almost
Idea
Operating
Operating System
Go
Continue
Lot
End
Train
In The End
Explain
Connect
Companies
Whole
Company
Millions
Basically
When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.
Gillian Tans
Work
You
Young
Fail
Learn
How
Very
Going
Start
Technology's great, but you can only be as good in technology as your people are.
Gillian Tans
Good
Great
You
Technology
People
Only
Your
We wanted to go much bigger than anybody else. That's why we've targeted so many countries.
Gillian Tans
Else
Countries
Go
Targeted
Than
Anybody
Anybody Else
Wanted
Bigger
Much
Many
Why
Pack snacks. Food prices once you pass through airport security or within blocks of a major tourist attraction can be double the price. Pack travel-friendly snacks or visit a grocery store in the destination you are visiting to get a better price.
Gillian Tans
Food
You
Destination
Better
Once
Airport
Visit
Visiting
Security
Through
Price
Prices
Tourist
Major
Attraction
Within
Pass
Snacks
Blocks
Get
Store
Pack
Double
Grocery
Grocery Store
It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.
Gina Rinehart
Me
Tough Times
Tough
First
Goodness
Think
Back
Our
Through
Had
Because
Up
Very
Times
Families
Really
Helps
Here
Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.
Gina Rinehart
Construction
Achieve
Nothing
Resources
Delays
More
Only
Costs
Had
Hill
Permits
Were
Than
Did
Human
Again
Productivity
Human Resources
Waste
Assist
Roy
I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.
Gina Rinehart
Father
Think
Bit
Perfect
Except
He
Handsome
Quite
Nearly
Fat
We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.
Gina Rinehart
Took
Those
Pretty
Over
Were
Years
They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.
Gina Rinehart
Work
You
Joy
Sky
Too Much
Too
Say
Out
Give
Falling
Unearned
Get
Just
Children
Want
Much
Your
Keep
They Say
Things
Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.
Gina Rinehart
Day
Me
You
Mother
Benefit
Correctly
Take
He
Shares
Said
Children
Your
Dad
Right
To be able to take the next generation, my daughters and my granddaughters, to better understand and respect the people in the Outback and experience the wonders of our country, would definitely be one of my favourite duties.
Gina Rinehart
Respect
Generation
Experience
People
Better
Country
Our
Definitely
Would
Favourite
Able
Daughters
Take
Understand
Wonders
Duties
Granddaughter
Next
Next Generation
We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.
Gina Rinehart
Hope
Family
Generation
Father
First
Too
Everything
Destroys
Given
Know
Because
Built
Up
Just
Where
Different
Stories
Far
Worked
Hard
Certainly
Many
Away
Two
Third
If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.
Gina Rinehart
You
Welcome
Generation
Our
Investment
Make
Want
Poor
Next
Next Generation
Help
Businesses
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