Nick Candy

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

Our aim is to compete with any luxury brand. Candy & Candy will be a luxury brand, recognised in Rodeo Drive, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and London. Those are the major centres in the world. It will be synonymous with the design of homes, houses, flats, yachts, aircraft and retail.

My advice to budding property developers: do it on the cheap and you’ll get a cheap price. Don’t avoid putting in skirting just because it’s hidden by a sofa.

We know everything about our clients – if they like their dressing gowns heated, what colour flowers they like, if their chef works left-handed – we know everything and we incorporate it into our work for them.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

We’ve got a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a Mercedes SLR McLaren, a Cherokee Jeep, and … a Renault Clio! We’ve had Ferraris, Aston Martins, Porsches. We’ve probably got about 10 cars.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.