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Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
— John Caudwell
I really do feel guilty that I don't visit me mum enough.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
— John Caudwell
I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
— John Caudwell
I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.
— John Caudwell
My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.
— John Caudwell
E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
— John Caudwell
We must change the world in order to change ourselves
— Christopher Caudwell
When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.
— John Caudwell
I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
It seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
— Sarah Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
I was always interested in ladies' fashion.
— John Caudwell
OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.
— John Caudwell
People are much more important than superficial environments.
— John Caudwell
I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
— John Caudwell
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
— John Caudwell
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
— John Caudwell
People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
— John Caudwell
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
— John Caudwell
'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.'
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
— Christopher Caudwell
I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.
— John Caudwell
It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.
— Sarah Caudwell
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
— John Caudwell
Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]
— Sarah Caudwell
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.
— John Caudwell
I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.
— John Caudwell