John Harvey-Jones Quotes
- If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.
- People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.
- 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…
- In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.
- It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
- 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…
- It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the…
- Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a…
- People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products…
- 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…
- The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.