John Harvey-Jones

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure…

— John Harvey-Jones

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

— John Harvey-Jones

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new…

— John Harvey-Jones

Good business should contain something for both parties.

— 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 surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the…

— 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…

— John Harvey-Jones

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

— 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…

— John Harvey-Jones

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

— John Harvey-Jones

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

— 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

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into…

— John Harvey-Jones

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

— 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…

— John Harvey-Jones

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

— 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…

— John Harvey-Jones