Nick Candy

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

We started learning ourselves, understanding ourselves, reading, researching, going around the world and looking at what was defined as the very best.

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.

I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.