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E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
I was always interested in ladies' fashion.
I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.
I really do feel guilty that I don't visit me mum enough.
I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.
People are much more important than superficial environments.
I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.
I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.
I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!
I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u so I banned it immediately.
If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.
Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'
At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.
My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.
I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It's wonderful.
I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.
I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.
I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.
Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.