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Ann Budge Quotes

born 1948 Scotland

Ann Budge (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish businesswoman and company director.

Scotland
Businesspeople
Businesswomen

Random Ann Budge quote

15 quotes

"I am just not cut out to run a public company and be answerable to hundreds of faceless shareholders."

“I always said that I wouldn’t lose a fortune on a football club.”

No, I didn’t do that; I spent money I knew we had. Maybe we shouldn’t go into the discussion about whether I’ve always spent it wisely.

"My parents always strove to try to ensure their children would have more than they had. That is really what made them tick."

I've sat on the SPFL board and I've approved a loan for another club. I know that loans can be approved.

"If something is wrong, it is wrong and we should all be doing our utmost to correct that wrong."

As time went on, I definitely bought into the whole concept and became more involved.

I’ve been criticised for spending money we didn’t have.

I think there's been so much negativity and it has reached such a height that without an independent review it's not ever going to to go away.

Again, that's a really difficult question to answer. I sat on the board for a couple of seasons and I know how difficult these things are.

"To pour more financial hardship on specific clubs, given what we are all going through both now and for the foreseeable future, is both outrageous and shameful. We should be standing together to help clubs to survive and to save jobs."

"To continue in psychology, I would have had to do educational psychology and you had to teach for a couple of years. The last thing I wanted to do was teach."

To be honest, being CEO and having that level of involvement in everything going on in the club – being in the thick of things – was what I loved, but the moment was right to step back from that.

"My mother had a lot to do with bringing up my daughter. I knew that when I left her with my mother she was safe and then I could get on with my career."

"I wanted to demonstrate to my father I was still a good working class girl who would get married and have kids like everyone else. I soon realised it wasn't a very clever thing to have done."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ann Budge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.