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" I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off. "

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" The eight years I spent at Millwall were among the best times of my life. "

" Immigration has been good for this country; I know the value of it - hopefully I've given something back. "

" Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me. "

" I used to see Triumph TR7s and E-Type Jags, and I used to think, 'One day, I'm gonna have one of those.' I remember seeing an E-Type and walking round it 40 or 50 times. "

" I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work. "

" My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms. "

" What the entrepreneur gets on 'Dragons' Den' is direct access to people with masses of experience who can actually make quick decisions. "

" Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy. "

" People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this. "

" It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all. "

" Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do. "

" When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford. "

" I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss. "

" No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads. "

" Businesses might have been helped by the ability to promote themselves on the Internet, but they have also been hit by the web's encouragement of time-wasting by their staff. "

" I'm a shopaholic. I really am. I can't help myself. I do go into, browse, and purchase from my own shops, too, although the CEOs who run my businesses wish I didn't. "

" If you look at all the investments made during 'Dragons' Den,' the ratio of those that make it to those that don't is actually extremely high. "

" I'm not into cats; they aren't my bag. "

" I am a great believer that the risk should reflect the reward. "

" I'm a very considerate spender. I'm a shopper, and I do spend money, but I think about it first. "

" The wider the exposure that we give children of the real working world, the better. "

" I can walk all day in malls, shopping centres, high streets - I love it. "

" I was absolutely astonished and could not believe my eyes at the outrageous interest rates that people in need have to pay to get loans. "

" In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in Cyprus. It completely transformed the Paphitis story. "

" The reality in business and in 'Dragons' Den' is you win some, and you lose some. "

" I like the odd day relaxing by the pool, but I couldn't stand to sunbathe for an entire week. "

" Wherever I go in the world, I put aside several days to go visit the stores. "

" I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable. "