John Caudwell Quotes

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• People are much more important than superficial environments.
• I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
• 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.
• People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
• E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
• I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of…
• My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at…
• 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…
• Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
• 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…
• I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest…
• Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.

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