Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.

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

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.

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

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 very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

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