As A Modern Employer You Have To

I've Obviously Used Fans - I Wouldn't Say All My Life, Because We Couldn't Afford Them When I Was Young, But From My 20s And Onwards We've Had To Use Fans. And I've Always Loathed Them. Everything About Them. The Way You Adjust Them, Getting Them At The Angle You Want. Carrying Them. Cleaning Them. The Danger Of Putting Your Finger In Them.

If You Didn't Have Patents, No One Would Bother To Spend Money On Research And Development. But With Patents, If Someone Has A Good Idea And A Competitor Can't Copy It, Then That Competitor Will Have To Think Of Their Own Way Of Doing It. So Then, Instead Of Just One Innovator, You Have Two Or Three People Trying To Do Something In A New Way.

China Can And Will Be An Invaluable Trading Partner To Both The U.s. And The U.k.

The Way The World Is Going, It's Technology Driven. And It Isn't Just Driven By The Old Super Powers, It's Driven By The Far East And New Emerging Economies.

Successes Teach You Nothing. Failures Teach You Everything. Making Mistakes Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do.