Quotes from 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.

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

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 their work environment.

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

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

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

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