Nick Candy

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.

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.

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

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

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

I was the most productive when I was in a flex situation. Do not check for me for needless meetings.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

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.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.