29 Quotes by 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 like arrogance or bullies.

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

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

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

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

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 language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.

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

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