John Harvey-Jones famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Leadership #People #Energy
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.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Business #Fun #Worry
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.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Leadership #Responsibility #Opportunity
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Leadership #Communication #Order
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Leadership #School #Ethics
Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#People #Trying #And Love
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Mistake #Failure #People
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Years #Two #Statistics
The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Business #Believe #Innovation
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.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Business #People #Doe
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
-- John Harvey-Jones

#Business #Taken #Decision

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