There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.