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" Take calculated risks and limit your downside. "
Theo Paphitis
Risks
Take
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" The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel. "
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" I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful. "
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" I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special. "
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" Good businesses will survive good times and bad times. "
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" My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating. "
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" The high streets I remember best were Seven Sisters Road in north London and then sunny Peckham in south London after we moved there. They were where my parents used to shop. They were great, part of being a teenager. "
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" I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss. "
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" When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford. "
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" Showing your emotions is not a weakness. "
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" The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail. "
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" I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail. "
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" What makes business exciting is that you don't need a fancy degree, and anyone can do it. "
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" If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills. "
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" When I went to school, most parents wanted their children to get good A-levels, to go to university, and get a degree so your children had a better life than you. The way out of poverty was through a degree. But the whole world has moved on from that. "
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Parents
School
" Wherever I go in the world, I put aside several days to go visit the stores. "
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Go
World
" Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy. "
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Next
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" I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense. "
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Business
Doing
" Save money; never rely on other people to lend you money. We call it having 'walking the streets' money - money in your back pocket or bank account that belongs to you. "
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" 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. "
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" The high street is not a retail thing: it's a social thing, part of the British lifestyle. And I say that as someone who started his life on Limassol high street in Cyprus. "
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Say
Street
Someone
" 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. "
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" The minute I stepped foot on the shop floor and started serving in a retail environment, I knew it was the career for me. I was a shop assistant for just one day, and I thought, 'This is it. This is the rest of my life. This is all I want to do.' "
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" If someone underestimates you because you are warm and approachable, then you have an advantage over them. "
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" I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six. "
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Born
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" On Saturday, I don't want to be woken up until at least nine: I like a bit of a lie-in, a cup of tea, toast and marmalade, and the newspaper. "
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" 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. "
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" Young people are the entrepreneurs of the future, and we should be looking to them as one of our sources of innovation for the high streets of tomorrow. "
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