When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets.… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment,… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
