"We sell goods at 49/11 rather than 50/- because we believe there's something psychological in women that makes it a more attractive price..."
The Hon. Marcus Sieff, Vice-Chairman, Marks and Spencer

"I never work less than eighty hours a week. My wife encourages me. We both get a kick out of it... to be involved in something that might not happen again."
Jim Houston, Productivity Services Director, Fairfields Shipyard

"The first year we lost £2,000. This has been transformed in the second year to a profit of about £3,000. I could run a company fifty or a hundred times larger with just as much success."
Alan Fletcher, Rico Machine and Tool Co., after three years in business

"People don't want to be run by a cipher in London. They want to see somebody, however ugly..."
Sir Donald Stokes, Chairman, Leyland Group

These insights into the boss, his life, and tough times, all come from men in tonight's programme: the second part, in which workers have their say, is shown tomorrow night.