Nick Candy

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.

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

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.

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.

We decided not to show One Hyde Park til we were 100% ready. A lot of people open the doors too early.

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.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

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

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

Investors have very short memories.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?