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.

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.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

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.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

Investors are visionaries in some respects – they look beyond the present.

I used to be able to read memo’s upside down… It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

If you change anything about the way you approach selling, the thing that would make the biggest difference would be your attitude, your attitude toward your customer, your service, the benefits of your products, your employer, and yourself.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.