Quotes by Ben Elliot - Page 1

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
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Latin
Slave
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I have to be passionate about everything I do.
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Passionate
Everything About
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Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
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Childhood
Cricket
Since
Fanatic
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Now if I don't take exercise I feel a bit frazzled.
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Exercise
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When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.
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Damage
Printed
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I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
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Punishment
Sucker
People Say Think
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For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
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Gold
Marble
Life Me Place
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The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
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Time And Space
Life Space Time
Luxuries
Rates
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If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
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Succeed
People Feel Your
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For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
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Pilates
Escape
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I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
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Enthusiasm
Sorting
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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
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Favour
Habit
Traditional
Businesses
Creature
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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Employing
Nonsense
Absolute
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In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.
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Heart And Soul
Heart Man Soul
Ideally
Weekends
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I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
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Biographies
Hardy
Big Big Fan Fan
Big Fan
Fan
Big Fan Fan Big
Graham
Histories
Mainly
Swift
Thomas
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Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
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Attention
Class
Fastidious
First Class
Detail
Difference
Service
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A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.
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Corporate
Developing
Partners
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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Corners
Sun
Holidays
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When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
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Essence
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What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
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Time Business Better
Bill
Every Time
Help People
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I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
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Right Way
Life Believe People
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Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
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Charm
Cities
Stylish
Unique
Collection
Easily
Neighborhoods
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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Experience
Blue
Quintessential
Rio
Stopping
Fish
Mountains
Off
Having
Picnic
Raft
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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Eating
Obsession
English
Boarding
List
Low
Partly
Schools
Spent
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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Beauty
Blast
Luxury
Made
Ultimate
Life Art Work
Beauty Life Work
Beauty Life Art
Enhance
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It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
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Crave
Divorced
Miserable
Unhappy
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In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.
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Bunch
Cricket
Summer
Time Long Long Time
Time Long Cricket
Sundays
Very Long Time
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In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.
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Guru
Pilates
Daily I Am Me
Puts
Routines
Sweeter
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When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment - plus, you'll run into the world and his wife there.
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New York
Baths
East
Plus
Treatment
Turkish
Run
Discovered
Street
York
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I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.
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Big Deal
New Yorkers
Life Nature I Am
No Big Deal
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I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
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Attitude
Amount
Choices
Ruined
Best Me Long
Attitude Best Me
Apologize
Conversations
Spend
Issue
Ordering
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I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.
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Networking
Business Hate Me
Interesting People
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My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
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Deserve
Farms
Shops
Banks
Instilled
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I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
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Fascinated
Intoxicating
Reserve
Visited
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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.
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Bristol
House Of Commons
Organisation
Assumed
Love Politics Always
Seat
Commons
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I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.
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Annoyed
Beirut
Do You Know
Success Business Me
Ben
Introduced
Meet
Ringing
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With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.
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Cities
Japan
Pulse
Rising
Staying
Calls
Ensure
Finger
Offices
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