If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.