Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Anger is a good motivator.