Nick Candy

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

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.

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.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

If the boss stands in the way of men getting what they earn, he is not fit to be boss.

I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.