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I never thought I'd be a TV entrepreneur.
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Entrepreneur
Tv
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I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'
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Feedback
Substitute
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Whenever I invest, I invest in the person as well as the business.
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Invest
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Being an entrepreneur is probably the most lonely thing you can do.
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Entrepreneur
Lonely
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My kids certainly aren't going to have the money. They don't need it.
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Certainly
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I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.
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Respectful
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Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.
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Innovative
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I've played a massive and growing part in making business glamorous and even, yes, sexy.
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Glamorous
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When people pitch me their ideas in a T-shirt and jeans it shows they can't be bothered.
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Bothered
Ideas
Jeans
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Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.
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Business
Character
Fun
Having Fun
Making Money
Business Money Your
Across
Having
Making
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You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.
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Competitors
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If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.
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Dragons
Annoys
Den
Exactly What
Onto
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I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
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County
Giraffe
Tennis
Did
Bit
Tennis Court
Though
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I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.
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Method
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The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
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Business
Influence
Your People Influence
Scale
Business People Your
Meet
More People
Quicker
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All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.
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Poorest
Practical
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When you do make losses, or you have businesses that don't succeed, it's about knowing when to stop and do something else.
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Losses
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If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.
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Delusional
Dragons
Seeing
Wonderful
Weird
Although
Filming
Den
Flat Out
Plain
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There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.
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Disagree
Entrepreneur
Lots
Either
Gene
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For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.
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Hands-On
Route
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I want enterprise and entrepreneurship embedded in the national curriculum and will continue to lobby government until it happens.
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Curriculum
Embedded
Enterprise
Entrepreneurship
Lobby
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I've certainly learnt there's nothing more important than cash - cash flow issues are one of the biggest causes of company failures.
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Cash
Causes
Flow
Important Nothing More
Biggest
Certainly
Learnt
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I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.
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Association
Exam
Lawn
Persuaded
Saturdays
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We've all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can't bear it.
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Birthday
Ferrari
Spoiled
Bear
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Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.
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Go For It
Lacks
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If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.
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Decisions
Work Money Your
Earn
Factor
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One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.
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Chiefs
Succeed
Decisions
Entrepreneurs
People Right People Right
Reasons
Right Decisions
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So I went and got my first job at 28, trying to think what I am going to do, I've never worked for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.
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First Job
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Knowledge-based apprenticeships kickstart careers. Just look at British fashion designer Karen Millen, for example, who learned her craft through an apprenticeship scheme.
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Apprenticeship
Careers
Designer
Fashion Designer
Craft
For Example
Scheme
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I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.
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Chair
Commands
Picking
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I passionately believe that you should start a company that you really believe in. Don't start something that you have no interest in, start something that you're passionate about.
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No Interest
Passionately
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My father was an air conditioning engineer and we lived in a three-bedroom terraced house in Langley before moving to a four-bedroom house in Maidenhead, where my parents still live.
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Air
Air Conditioning
Conditioning
House
Moving
Parents
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We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.
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Immense
Entrepreneurs
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American Inventor', a show I came up with launched in 2006. It's all of America's greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one with a judging panel including the legendary George Foreman.
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Judging
Legendary
Foreman
George Foreman
Inventions
Panel
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I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.
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Computer
Credit
House
Lost
Months
Office
Six
Gave
Parents
Investigate
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Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.
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Education
Best
Apprenticeship
Courses
Schemes
Skills
Traditional
University
Alternative
Education Best People
Been
Career
Through
Learned
Some
Route
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In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.
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Balls
Hitting
Beating
Imagining
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I have seen celebrities whose friends change as they become more successful, but my friends haven't changed over 30 years. I've still got some of the friends I had when I was 14 and I see them regularly with their families.
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Changed
Celebrities
Regularly
Whose
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People have dreams, don't they? Young people have enormous vision for their futures. I think a lot of them are realising that they won't necessarily be Robbie Williams but they might be brilliant businessmen and businesswomen.
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Enormous
Realising
Futures
Williams
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One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it's not. It's about doing something better than your competition.
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Innovation
Something New
Business Your Me
Annoys
Slightly
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When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father's office in Windsor. I only lasted a few terms, but it didn't curb my ambition.
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Curb
Fence
Miles
Private School
Saved
Windsor
Escaped
Walk Father Me
Lasted
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It was tennis that got me started in business. When I was 16 and about to embark on my A-levels, I set up a tennis academy and became one of the youngest qualified tennis coaches in the country. It did well; by the time I was 19 I was able to buy my first house.
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Coaches
Qualified
Time Business Me
By The Time
Embark
Youngest
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I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
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Livelihood
Right Thing
Affecting
Do The Right Thing
The Right Thing
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I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X-Factor'. I know I am. But 'Dragons' Den' will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it's fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren't.
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Bored
Dragons
I Am People Will
I Am People Way
Den
Fundamentally
Strictly
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The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at home, an IBM compatible computer, and then I started to sell computers, and when I sold a computer to a company called Ligo I think, and they were selling systems which became blockbuster.
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Computers
Blockbuster
Compatible
Computer
Ibm
Sell
First Thing
Sold
Systems
The First Thing
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When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.
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English Teacher
Porsche
Trappings
Woodward
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