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John Harvey-Jones Quotes

1924–2008 England

England
Businesspeople

Also known as: Sir John Harvey-Jones

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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.

Sir John Harvey-Jones (1882)

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Harvey-Jones (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.