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.

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.

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

Good business should contain something for both parties.

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 complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

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 is limited in this regard.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.