Peter Jones Quotes

Peter Jones

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 18, 1966

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

Peter Jones

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

Peter Jones

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

Peter Jones

In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

Peter Jones

I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.

Peter Jones

Whenever I invest, I invest in the person as well as the business.

Peter Jones

American Inventor', a show I came up with launched in 2006. It's all of America's greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one with a judging panel including the legendary George Foreman.

Peter Jones