As a guest on Radio 4's Today show yesterday, Heather McGregor caused quite a stir, leaving presenter John Humphrys sounding surprised. For those who missed it, here is the wit and wisdom of McGregor, director of headhunters Taylor Bennett, not to mention author of the Financial Times' Mrs Moneypenny column (in which she refers to her children as cost centres one, two and three).
On executive pay: "There isn't such a thing as too much or too little."
On the public complaining about high pay: "Anybody over the age of seven who says that things are not fair needs to have a reality check."
On the Equal Pay Commission's report: "Some of the suggestions are frankly barking mad, and one of them is to put an employee on the remuneration committee."
When John Humphrys says that they do it in Germany: "Are we Germany? We might have been, 70 years ago, if it had gone the wrong way."
On worker representation on pay committees: "John, you have young children, you would not give your child a say on how much money you allocate yourself for clothes or for haircuts."
On the state of capitalism: "We do not operate workers' cooperatives; if they want to work in a workers' cooperative, everybody can move to Cuba."
