25 Quotes by Henk Potts

There has been an awful lot of talk and an awful lot of speculation but this is the first time that one of the suitors has been prepared to put hard cash down and put its money where its mouth is. This could help bring this long-running saga to an end and it certainly puts the Nasdaq in pole position.

There are a huge number of investors who would want a Premier League football club. It would be a classic trophy asset if they've already got a Rolls-Royce and a yacht - for status it doesn't get bigger.

When you get to this level of wealth, business becomes a game or a challenge,

Financially people are talking 10 million pounds a day in the short-term, but obviously longer-term there's the hit it takes in terms of customers and how it's perceived by clients.

The punter has been outperforming, but there was only so long that was likely to last. At the end of the day, the house always wins.

We are still very cautious on leisure and airline stocks. For British Airways the transatlantic route represents about 40 percent of revenue, they still have more room to fall but Lufthansa has made good progress in cutting costs.

The most important customer for BA is the business customer, the premium customer, and what they are looking for is reliability. If they start to believe they can't get that at BA, that is a major worry.

They are reducing capacity, so that could be good news for some European companies and pretty much in line with our models.

It's been such a good performance but there looks like an element of profit taking with a lack of new momentum. We are looking for something else to push us forward.