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I can never fully switch off given my work, but laying on the beach replying to a few emails on my mobile is much better than being stuck in the office.
Karren Brady / Executive
Beach
Mobile
Work Better I Can
Emails
Laying
Switch
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What I love about London is you can go out of your door and turn left or right, and you could eat at every restaurant and still never go round in a loop.
Karren Brady / Executive
Round
Loop
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English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding.
Karren Brady / Executive
Clubs
Funding
Gains
Scottish
Welsh
Northern
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The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Karren Brady / Executive
Divided
Things Happen
Wonder
Business World People
Types
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By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.
Karren Brady / Executive
Birmingham
Time Business Women
By The Time
Great Pride
Sold
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I always wear a suit jacket, a smart blouse or a top, with my hair and make-up done. Under the desk, what no one knows, is that I'm wearing jeans and trainers.
Karren Brady / Executive
Jeans
Smart
Trainers
Desk
Wearing
Jacket
Suit
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My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to the office on the Monday to sack a manager.
Karren Brady / Executive
Maternity
Monday
Wednesday
Sack
Three-Day
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If I can encourage other women to think about setting up their own businesses and being entrepreneurs and making a contribution then I think that's a good thing.
Karren Brady / Executive
Contribution
Setting
Entrepreneurs
Good Thing
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I couldn't think of anything worse than drinking a load of gunky-green stuff and sweating in a gym. I would rather sit in front of the TV and have a glass of wine.
Karren Brady / Executive
Drinking
Load
Sweating
Wine
Glass
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I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they pay. But I think everybody should pay their taxes.
Karren Brady / Executive
Hardworking
Money Believe People
Retain
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Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.
Karren Brady / Executive
Handle
Time Business World
Payments
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Let's face it, when is it actually ever funny to joke about hitting someone? Never, right? The threat to give someone a slap, no matter how you look at it, is aggressive.
Karren Brady / Executive
Aggressive
Hitting
Slap
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The brain aneurysm I had in 2006 put things into perspective. It made me understand what was really important - to enjoy life, take more risks and stop putting things off.
Karren Brady / Executive
Enjoy Life
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I have met people in the street who say, 'You look like Karren Brady, but she is fat.' But I don't care. I am happy with the way I look; it's not something that drives me mad.
Karren Brady / Executive
Brady
I Am Me I Am Happy
Drives
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On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.
Karren Brady / Executive
Apprentice
Cent
Contract
Insisted
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People who see successful young women think that there must be an angle there. It's too good to be true that woman from a good upbringing can walk into a good job and be director.
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Angle
Good Job
Upbringing
Young Women
Be True
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You have to have two personalities: your home personality and your work personality and the trick really is not to allow one of those personalities to drain the life out of the other.
Karren Brady / Executive
Life Work Home
Drain
Trick
Personalities
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I remember when I was young, I used to love hockey - I was selected to play for my county - and my dad said: 'Well, there's no money to be made in hockey,' and it put me off for ever.
Karren Brady / Executive
County
Hockey
Remember When
Selected
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When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn't, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I've come to accept my shape - and embrace it.
Karren Brady / Executive
Disappointed
Getting Older
Great Thing
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As long as you like yourself, as long as your family like you, as long as you are good at what you do, your staff respect you, and your board have trust in you, that's what is important.
Karren Brady / Executive
Staff
Trust Family Good
Board
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I love business and that's why I go on other people's board because it is my hobby. Some people join a tennis club to do things in their spare time. I join boards because that's what I love.
Karren Brady / Executive
Spare Time
Tennis
Love Time Business
Board
Club
Hobby
Join
Some People
Spare
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I'm the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and a T-shirt on and head to the Tube and go to work most mornings. It takes seconds.
Karren Brady / Executive
Jeans
Seconds
Vain
Brush
Mornings
Shower
Tube
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My kids are my life. Sitting on the sidelines watching my son play rugby, helping them with their homework or getting them ready for their exams - I can't think of anything else I'd rather do.
Karren Brady / Executive
Homework
Rugby
Sidelines
Life My Life Anything
Exams
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Our supermarkets sell us horsemeat as beef, our politicians fiddle their expenses, and our bankers risk money that isn't theirs. So it's not surprising the public don't trust anyone or anything.
Karren Brady / Executive
Beef
Expenses
Fiddle
Surprising
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I think it doesn't actually matter what your political persuasion is, but if you are interested in the country that you live in and the way in which it's run, everyone has to do something about that.
Karren Brady / Executive
Persuasion
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When you're starting your own business it's really important to think through your plan: what's the idea, why is it relevant to the market, how much money you are going to invest, how are you going to tell people about it.
Karren Brady / Executive
Relevant
Business Money People
Invest
How Much Money
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I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life. I've taken every opportunity, pushed myself in ways I'm not sure I knew were even possible, I've made the best of my life and career. So yes, I do feel proud of myself.
Karren Brady / Executive
Life Best Myself
Every Opportunity
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I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.
Karren Brady / Executive
Boards
Sake
Shareholders
Taken
Anybody
Companies
Explain
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I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'All these weirdos are knocking on the door.'
Karren Brady / Executive
Bedroom
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Massage
Window
Rushed
Sticking
Weirdos
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I think the term feminist is scary for women, because it means that you're extreme in some way, and I'm not extreme in any way, although I do passionately believe that a woman's role within any organisation is to assist and help other women.
Karren Brady / Executive
Organisation
Extreme
Assist
Women Believe Woman
Passionately
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To any man currently thinking it's not safe to say anything to women these days, allow me to offer you a rule of thumb. If you're in any doubt about something you're going to say to a woman, just ask yourself if you'd say the same thing to a man.
Karren Brady / Executive
Doubt
Safe
Allow
Currently
Rule
Same Thing
Thumb
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It really annoys me when magazines put up these 'superwomen' with the perfect blow-dry, the perfect life - but nothing's perfect. People have a whole bunch of problems and it's how many solutions you can find to those problems as to how happy you are.
Karren Brady / Executive
Bunch
Magazines
Perfect Life
Solutions
Life Me People
Annoys
Life Me Problems
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In my experience, not all women want to run the world. Not all women want to run a big banking conglomerate. Not all women want to be prime minister. What a lot of women want is a good career that respects them… and high-quality, affordable childcare.
Karren Brady / Executive
Affordable
Banking
Childcare
High Quality
Prime
Prime Minister
Good Experience Women
All Women
Conglomerate
Experience Good Women
Minister
Respects
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I think it's a very old fashioned attitude, that you've got to wear short skirts and a lot of make up to get on in life. I think most women look at that and laugh. I think those are antiquated views from a bygone age that thankfully is no longer around.
Karren Brady / Executive
Skirts
Views
Antiquated
Make Up
Thankfully
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I am a faithful companion of Jesus. I probably wasn't when I was 12 or 13 when I was in the convent, but I think having a spiritual side means that you live your life with an open heart, and you embrace things that are difficult, you want people to do well.
Karren Brady / Executive
Jesus
Companion
Embrace
Faithful
Spiritual
Life Heart Your
Life Heart I Am
Convent
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The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence. I had been at boarding school for many years. When you're boarding, nothing is your own and your whole day is scheduled. You're told when to sleep, what to eat and when. You have zero independence.
Karren Brady / Executive
Independence
Boarding
Boarding School
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I've met some very difficult people and I've had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren't very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.
Karren Brady / Executive
Criticism
Likes
Parcel
Pleasant
Life People Difficult
Lots
Conversations
Difficult People
Life Difficult People
Part And Parcel
Supporters
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Any board executive can forget just how many people helped them get where they are. Those women who have got to the top need actively to ensure there is a pipeline of younger women, whether by networking or mentoring, who in turn are encouraging those below them.
Karren Brady / Executive
Encouraging
Mentoring
Networking
Pipeline
Actively
Below
Board
Ensure
Executive
How Many People
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It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.
Karren Brady / Executive
Depressing
Feminism
No Reason
Work Women I Am
Increasingly
Struck
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For clubs, free movement plays a big role in transfers and players' contracts. Players from the E.U. can sign for U.K. clubs without needing a visa or special work permit, making it quicker and easier to secure top talent from across Europe to come and play in our leagues.
Karren Brady / Executive
Clubs
Contracts
Easier
Movement
Permit
Secure
Talent
Visa
Leagues
Needing
Plays
Quicker
Sign
Transfer
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Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.
Karren Brady / Executive
Difficult
Manage
Pressure
Family Work Women
Career
Either
Sympathise
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On a personal level, the 'Young Apprentice' schedule is very long. The children needed long breaks so the sheer amount of time it took made it tougher. There was a lot more hanging around. But as a show, championing young people and promoting young people who are willing to have a go, I thought it was great.
Karren Brady / Executive
Apprentice
Sheer
Time Great Long
Breaks
Championing
Personal Level
Schedule
Tougher
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The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.
Karren Brady / Executive
Communication
Characteristics
Determination
Display
Enthusiasm
Female
Men And Women
Strategy
Business Men Women
Male
Business People
Men Business Women
Fundamentally
Qualities
Similar
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The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the employment led mixed-use development. In these trying and difficult times, it is vital that we invest in the future of our community, in the hope that they will continue to take this country from strength to strength.
Karren Brady / Executive
Country
Educational
Strong
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