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

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.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Jim Ratcliffe

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

Jim Ratcliffe

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Jim Ratcliffe

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Jim Ratcliffe

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

Jim Ratcliffe

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.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Jim Ratcliffe

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.

Jim Ratcliffe

We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

Jim Ratcliffe

Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

Jim Ratcliffe