29 Quotes by Jim Ratcliffe

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

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

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

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

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

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

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.