"in sport, if you want to improve a technique, you would probably go to an expert coach to teach you"

"bringing in consultants can mean the business is run by the wrong people"

"if you look after the pennies, some one else is running off with the pounds"

"in this company there is no internal fighting, the fight is out there for clients - what is your team really doing !"

"employing a family member might be great, but is it not compromising effective business performance in the place of misguided trust?"

"a business mentor is your personal business fitness trainer!"

"your business is not a family business, as when you sack someone, the factory gates are closed to that person - doesn't sound like family to me !"

"as the business owner you should not be running the business but leading the business - which are you doing?"

"is there a clear leader, leading the business in your company - it does not have to be you!"

"you and your team have the answers to solving your business problems, but do you have the time to get at those answers?"

"responsible leadership can be learnt, it is an art of the highest degree"

"Management is about coping with complexity. Leadership is about coping with change"

"treat employees as adults, not as children, and they will build your business for you"

"every-ones job gets them down sometimes, but if you are down all the time, you are in the wrong job "

"we believe in soft management which in turn will yield hard results"

"do you really know what your employees think, dream and care about ?"

"in the morning, employees cross the factory gate and for 8 hours are treated like naughty children. When they leave for home, they behave like responsible adults, who vote, take credits, have families, are members of clubs.why is that?"

"allow employees to make mistakes and learn from them in a positive constructive way, if you don't you are only covering up the mistakes anyway, and worse still, without learning from them!"

"is yours a learning organisation or a do as your told organisation?"

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them."

- Laurence J. Peter

"Life is a crisis - so what!"

- Malcolm Bradbury

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

-Henri Kaiser

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

- Lee Iacocca

"The day soldiers stop bring you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

- General Colin Powell

"if you don't know where you want your business to be in 2 years time, then who will?"

"You may have a vision for your business, but remember that even lunatics have visions!"

"remember that leaders also make mistakes, but few are real leaders in being able to admit their mistakes!"