It takes a big man to say to a subordinate, ‘I was wrong.’
Sir Richard Jebb could not write a simple German letter and I wonder whether he ever read the copy of Herakles that Wilamowitz sent him
The Success Syndrome that debilitates so many companies also tends to create a dependence on consultants which borders on the ludicrous
We’ve got so timid. We’ve said ‘let’s try and save them’. There was a time when we created these DB schemes
He [Morris] saw the world divided into a possessing class, with their hangers-on, and a vast dispossessed class dependent for life itself upon the condition that their employment should be a source of profit to the employers
It takes time to learn to live with an idea. All these portfolio managers, I don’t believe they even know what they own
We cannot point to one historical example in which a temporary labour shortage has been remedied with a temporary labour migration programme
A man with scruff in not a tool of the corporate world
but the inflation is so alarming that it seems better to keep in employment while I may
writing is converted to a mechanic trade; and booksellers, instead of the great, become the patrons and paymasters of men of genius