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Richard Quest
English
Journalist
Born:
Mar 9
,
1962
About
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I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'
Richard Quest
Morning
Wake Up
Broadcasting
Would
Always
How
Wake
Up
Wonder
Child
Listen
Loved
Radio
Liverpool
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
Richard Quest
Environmental
Change
Women
Rich
More
More And More
Fact
Remain
Countries
Voters
Global
Partisan
Vulnerable
Becoming
Leaving
Left
Getting
Politically
Behind
Being
While
Poor
Poorest
Richer
Workforce
If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.
Richard Quest
You
Sinking
Off
Ship
Getting
Help
Need
I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.
Richard Quest
Free
Believe
Market
Scandals
Abhorrent
Proper
Free Market
Absolutely
Banks
Capitalist
Working
Found
Why
Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.
Richard Quest
Confidence
Down
Difficult
Markets
Uncertainty
Instability
Consumer
Consumer Confidence
Investors
Like
Times
Goes
Away
Shy
Difficult Times
Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.
Richard Quest
Presidents
Security
Ministers
Status
Fine
Prime
Prime Ministers
Executives
CEOs
Who
Symbol
Need
WEF should restrict the number of passes for limos in the parking lots. They need to Keep it Simple.
Richard Quest
Simple
Restrict
Parking
Passes
Lots
Should
Keep
Number
Need
The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.
Richard Quest
Fire
Aircraft
Potential
Most
Issues
Board
Aviation
Serious
Serious Issues
Among
There can be no equivocation. I am Jewish.
Richard Quest
Am
Jewish
I'm not going to be one of those interviewers that forensically destroys someone.
Richard Quest
Those
Destroys
Someone
Going
'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
Richard Quest
Cause
Word
President
President Barack Obama
Took
Danish
Minister
Nelson
Obama
David
David Cameron
Prime
Prime Minister
Became
Cameron
Mandela
Barack
Barack Obama
Funeral
There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on their mind, 'Do you mind if I take a quick selfie?'
Richard Quest
You
Women
Mind
Men
Men And Women
Matters
State
Way
High
Easy
Easy Way
High Office
Take
Quick
Office
Hold
Ask
Who
Serious-Minded
A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.
Richard Quest
Time
People
Wonderful
Argument
Only
Had
Simply
Since
Know
Leave
Years
Lot
Left
Did
Want
Them
Worked
Why
Ever
University
I'm given an enormous amount of freedom, within the constraints of the editorial policies of the network. One of the Quest shows started off with me doing the cancan kicking... you know, the high kick, with dancing girls. We never thought CNN would agree to that.
Richard Quest
Freedom
Me
You
Thought
Girl
Enormous
Dancing
Kick
Kicking
High
Would
Constraints
Given
Network
Never
Know
Policies
Within
Editorial
Doing
Quest
Off
Agree
Shows
Amount
Started
What happens in Davos stays in Davos.
Richard Quest
Stays
Happens
Go to The Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath. It's an old-fashioned pub, and from there, you can look out over the London skyline.
Richard Quest
You
Out
London
Over
Look
Go
Heath
Pub
Old-Fashioned
Skyline
Inn
Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.
Richard Quest
You
Social Media
First
Big
Pump
Valid
Out
Find
See
Object
Potential
Vast
Part
Content
Test
Get
Big Story
Whenever
Happening
Story
Whether
Social
Prod
Then
Your
Media
Second
Basically
The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.
Richard Quest
Day
Events
Big
Driven
Facts
Always
Going
Big Story
Happened
Story
I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.
Richard Quest
You
Believe
Hat
Opinions
Leave
Door
Your
Views
Coat
New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.
Richard Quest
New
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Obviously
Integrated
New Zealand
Fully
Zealand
I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
Richard Quest
Phones
People
Cell Phones
Pay
Saw
Small
Fact
Goods
Cell
Fascinated
Using
You have to give an element of performance on television.
Richard Quest
You
Television
Give
Performance
Element
People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can't stand me; they hate my voice.
Richard Quest
Me
Broken
Hate
People
Speak
Some People
Way
Broken Glass
Some
Voice
Glass
Like
Stand
Describe
Even
I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.
Richard Quest
People
Rude
Every
Starts
Interview
Shake
Never
Am
Nasty
Hand
May
Ends
Interrupt
When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, 'Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?'
Richard Quest
Beautiful
You
People
Speak
Money
Will
Spend
Beaches
Countries
Since
Particularly
Because
Just
Where
Just Because
Ask
Us
Should
Your
Many
Why
When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.
Richard Quest
Christmas
Time
You
Travel
Yourself
Year
Whatever
State
Way
Mental
Take
Put
Going
Whether
Busiest
Your
Traveler
Traveling
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