Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is…

- John Harvey-Jones

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

- John Harvey-Jones

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

- John Harvey-Jones

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in th…

- John Harvey-Jones

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

- John Harvey-Jones

Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who ma…

- John Harvey-Jones

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselv…

- John Harvey-Jones

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

- John Harvey-Jones

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is per…

- John Harvey-Jones