Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

— Jim Ratcliffe

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

— Jim Ratcliffe

What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.

— 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.

— Jim Ratcliffe

We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

— Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

— Jim Ratcliffe

You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.

— Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

— Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have…

— Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on…

— 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…

— Jim Ratcliffe

Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have…

— Jim Ratcliffe

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe…

— Jim Ratcliffe

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate…

— Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most…

— 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…

— Jim Ratcliffe

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

— Jim Ratcliffe

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

— Jim Ratcliffe

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

— 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.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos…

— Jim Ratcliffe

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't…

— Jim Ratcliffe

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you…

— Jim Ratcliffe