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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.