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I've got a lot of laughter lines. You don't get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in your life.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Laughter
Lines
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I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Life Age My Life
Behaving
Particular Way
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I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Dependency
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Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Inspirational
Hard Work
Stuff
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As a young woman, before I had any money, I went backpacking across India, and I was aware of how gritty it could be.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Gritty
Young Woman
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I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Appearance
Judging
Time Myself Look
Trap
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I use my clothes to make my day better - for example, if it's a dull day, I'll wear something bright to cheer myself up.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Clothes
Dull
Example
Bright
Myself Better Day
For Example
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It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Innovative
Investment
New Business
Breaks
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The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Oh God
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I would have liked children, but I am not all disappointed. I've had a lot of stuff thrown at me in life so I don't dwell on it.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Disappointed
Thrown
Life I Am Me
Life Me I Am
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I look in the mirror and see lines, but I have earned those lines. It has taken me 59 years to get them and I am not losing them now.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Mirror Me Look
Earned
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I don't cook at all, and whenever my husband Paul goes away he leaves meals for me and I can't even be bothered to put them in the oven.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Meals
Leaves
Oven
Paul
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I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Architecture
Holiday
Scenery
Animals
Cooler
Quite A Lot
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I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Banish
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People can call me what they like - fat, ugly, sour - but tell me I'm not fair, tell me I'm not ethical, those are the things that bother me.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Bother
Ethical
Not Fair
Sour
Me People Fat
Me Fat People
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I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I'm surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Alive
Life Love Energy
Inventive
Luckiest
Surrounded
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Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Pursue
Rebelled
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A lot of people on holiday get very intolerant of things that go wrong, but getting wound up about the plane being late won't make it come any sooner.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Holiday
Sooner
Intolerant
Plane
Wound
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When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Coldness
Dispassionate
Decisions
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I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Acknowledge
Women Always Your
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I think the thing about business is that it's not completely separate to life. You're selling to people so it's all about life skills - and common sense.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Common Sense
Selling
Life Business People
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If people have got an amazing opportunity such as on 'Dragons' Den' and they mess it up by being lazy with their presentation it does make me a bit cross.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Being Lazy
Dragons
Lazy
Mess
Presentation
Cross
Den
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I suffer from reverse body dysmorphia. When I look in the mirror I see somebody slimmer. It's quite a shock to see myself on TV, especially on widescreen.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Body
Shock
Tv
Quite
Myself Mirror Look
Mirror
Suffer
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I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Business Believe People
Realise
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People can be very serious with me, and expect me to be very businesslike all the time. So I have to help them get over that by showing them that I enjoy life.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Enjoy Life
Life Time Me
Life Time Enjoy Life
Showing
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I think Cate Blanchett always gets it right. She seems very natural and wears interesting but not ridiculous clothes - she seems to push the boundaries just enough.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Boundaries
Cate Blanchett
Wears
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I am terrible. When I buy stuff, I want it straight away. If it says two to three weeks delivery - no way. I will find somewhere that will deliver it that afternoon.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Afternoon
Deliver
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My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Cleaning
Earn
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You need to tell people where they stand. If someone's done a good job, you should tell them they've done damn well. But if they haven't, you should take the same attitude.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Damn
Good Job
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As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Recent Past
Fairly
Astonished
Employer
Recent
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Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Honestly
Imagine
Retirement
Crossed
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People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Careers
Good Life
Life Cool Love
Life Love Cool
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I'm not scared of many sectors, so if you look at my investment portfolio, it is pretty wide. I've invested in anything from market research firms to fashion houses and textile companies.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Fashion
Investment
Research
Scared
Wide
Portfolio
Companies
Houses
Invested
Market
Sectors
Textile
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My first paid job was leading pony rides along Minehead seafront when I was eight. I probably got paid sixpence - not much but I loved horses and it gave me a great chance to be near them.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Great Chance Me
Near
Rides
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You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Share
Working Life
Life Change Start
Advances
Downs
Setbacks
Ups
Ups And Downs
Your Dream
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You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Attention
Pay
Powerful
Ignore
More Power
Powerful Thing
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Much as I'm loving the 'Strictly' experience, I'm sure I'll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on 'Dragons' Den' than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Dragons
Waltz
Appearances
Business Career
Den
Strictly
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People who buy your product or use your service don't care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Don't Care
Irrelevant
Judged
Basis
Product
Service
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My friends would say I'm not the person to go to for tea, a cuddle and sympathy, because I can't deliver. But if you want something sorted out and need a champion who will stand by your side, that is me.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Sympathy
Champion
Deliver
Sorted
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I have definitely learnt in business that when you have a smart, engaged entrepreneur with good judgement they can really drive even a mediocre business forward so to me the entrepreneur is very important.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Engaged
Entrepreneur
Judgement
Mediocre
Business Good Me
Learnt
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I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour's drive, because I thought: 'Location, location, location.' It worked.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Flower
Location
Neighbour
Stopping
Stall
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The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Code
Ethical
Invest
The One Thing
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If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Investment
Involved
Point Of View
Deal
Gets
View
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We have a very good history of manufacturing in this country but I worry that these skills are being lost. We walk around saying, 'We haven't got any manufacturing any more' but Made In Britain really means something, particularly in other parts of the world. We need to support British manufacturing.
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Manufacturing
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When I sold Weststar Holidays, the idea was to take stock and stop and then decide in life - we were going to travel around the world or whatever we were going to do. After about two weeks my husband said to me, 'Oh for goodness sake Deborah, get yourself a business because this is driving me bonkers.'
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Travel
Goodness
Husband
Sake
Two Weeks
Life Business World
Weeks
Holidays
Sold
Stock
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